{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-2008-act-commencement-no-4-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-2008-act-commencement-no-4-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/234",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (2008 Act) (Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-2008-act-commencement-no-4-order-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed days",
  "text": "(1) The day appointed for the coming into operation of—\n(a) in Part 2 of Schedule 4 to the Act (abolition of contracting-out for defined contribution pension schemes: further amendments)—\n(i) paragraph 45 in so far as it relates to paragraph 59, and\n(ii) paragraph 59 in so far as it is not already in operation, and\n(b) Part 7 of Schedule 6 to the Act (abolition of contracting-out for defined contribution pension schemes: further repeals) in so far as it relates to the repeal of the following provisions—\n(i) in paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 in sub-paragraph (5) the definition of “appropriate flat-rate percentage”, and\n(ii) Article 134(6)(a) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995,\nis 7th June 2012.\n(2) The day appointed for the coming into operation of Part 7 of Schedule 6 to the Act in so far as it relates to the repeal of Article 136 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 is 6th April 2015.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 59(4)(b) and (c) was substituted by section 25 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 49"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/234/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:15:22.206414+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."
}