{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2008/schedule-4/paragraph-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2008/schedule-4/paragraph-59.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2008/1",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/59",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 (priority in bankruptcy, etc.: employer's contributions to occupational pension scheme) is amended as follows.\n(2) Omit sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) (sums owed on account of employer's minimum payments to a money purchase contracted-out scheme).\n(3) In sub-paragraph (3A) (definition of “the appropriate amount”)—\n(a) in the opening words omit “or (3)”;\n(b) in paragraph (a) omit “or (2) (as the case may be)”.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (5) (interpretation)—\n(a) omit the definition of “appropriate flat-rate percentage”;\n(b) in the definition of “the percentage for contributing earners”—\n(i) omit the words “(a) in relation to a salary related contracted-out scheme,”;\n(ii) omit paragraph (b) and the preceding “and”;\n(c) in the definition of “the percentage for non-contributing earners”—\n(i) omit the words “(a) in relation to a salary related contracted-out scheme,”;\n(ii) omit paragraph (b) and the preceding “and”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 59(4)(b) (c) substituted (2.6.2012) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 25, 34(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 59 in operation at 7.6.2012 by S.R. 2012/234, art. 2(1)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 59(1) in operation at 6.4.2012 for specified purposes by S.R. 2012/115, art. 2(1)(b)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 59(2) (3) in operation at 6.4.2012 by S.R. 2012/115, art. 2(1)(b)(v)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/1/schedule/4/paragraph/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:29.509161+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."
}