{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-pension-credit-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2000/146",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Sharing (Pension Credit Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-pension-credit-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Requirements to be met by annuities",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 19, the prescribed requirements referred to in section 97F(2)(b) (cash equivalent to be used for purchasing annuities) are those specified in regulation 15(2) to (7) of the Pension Sharing (Implementation and Discharge of Liability) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (disqualification as a destination for pension credit—annuity contracts and insurance policies).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in operation at 1.12.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No. 145"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/146",
      "affecting_title": "The Pension Sharing (Pension Credit Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2009/113",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions (2008 Acts) (Consequential Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/146/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:46.471802+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}