{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-pension-credit-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-pension-credit-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-35.json",
  "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/35",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Definition of eligible pension credit rights",
  "text": "For the purposes of Article 37(3) of the 1999 Order, pension credit rights are eligible if they fall within the description in paragraph (a) or (b)—\n(a) rights which are derived from—\n(i) rights attributable to pensionable service on or after 6th April 1997 (excluding rights derived from additional voluntary contributions), or\n(ii) in the case of money purchase benefits, rights attributable to payments in respect of employment on or after 6th April 1997 (excluding rights derived from additional voluntary contributions),\nof the member whose pension rights were the subject of a pension sharing order or provision, or\n(b) safeguarded rights.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 35 in operation at 1.12.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/146",
      "affecting_title": "The Pension Sharing (Pension Credit Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2009/113",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions (2008 Acts) (Consequential Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Indexation and Disclosure of Information) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/146/regulation/35",
    "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."
}