{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-valuation-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-valuation-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/144",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Sharing (Valuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-valuation-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pension Sharing (Valuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st December 2000.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 1999 Order” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999;\n...\n“the Minimum Funding Requirement Regulations” means the Occupational Pension Schemes (Minimum Funding Requirement and Actuarial Valuations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996;\n“the Transfer Values Regulations” means the Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996;\n“the Winding Up Regulations” means the Occupational Pension Schemes (Winding Up) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996;\n...\n“the Department” means the Department for Social Development;\n...\n“employer” has the meaning given by section 176(1);\n...\n“occupational pension scheme” has the meaning given by section 1;\n“pension arrangement” has the meaning given by Article 43(1) of the 1999 Order;\n“relevant arrangement” has the meaning given by Article 26(8) of the 1999 Order;\n...\n“scheme” means an occupational pension scheme;\n...\n“transfer credits” has the meaning given by section 176(1);\n“transfer day” has the meaning given by Article 26(8) of the 1999 Order;\n“transferor” has the meaning given by Article 26(8) of the 1999 Order;\n“trustees or managers” has the meaning given by Article 43(1) of the 1999 Order;\n“valuation day” has the meaning given by Article 26(7) of the 1999 Order.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n(a) any reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section of the Pension Schemes Act bearing that number; and\n(b) any reference to a numbered Article is a reference to the Article of the Pensions Order bearing that number.\n(4) For the purposes of these Regulations and notwithstanding section 39(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954, where a period of time is expressed to begin on, or to be reckoned from, a particular day, that day shall be included in the period.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.10.2008) by virtue of The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/370), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.10.2008) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/370), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.10.2008) by virtue of The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/370), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.10.2008) by virtue of The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/370), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Pension Sharing (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/172), regs. 1, 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (6.4.2006) by virtue of The Taxation of Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes Legislation) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/744), arts. 1, 36(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.10.2008) by virtue of The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/370), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.12.2000) by The Pension Sharing (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000/335), regs. 1(1), 10(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 1.12.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R 1996 No. 570; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1997 Nos. 160 and 544"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R 1996 No. 621, as amended by S.R. 1997 No. 160 and S.R. 1999 No. 486"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/335",
      "affecting_title": "The Pension Sharing (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/144/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:47.668383+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."
}