{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2008/schedule-4/paragraph-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2008/schedule-4/paragraph-61.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/61",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Nothing in the relevant amendments and repeals affects the continued operation of section 30 of the Pension Schemes Act (cancellation, variation, surrender and refusal of certificates), or any regulations in force under it immediately before 6 April 2012 , for the purposes of a retrospective act.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1) “a retrospective act” means the cancellation, variation, surrender or refusal of a certificate, or the issue of an amended certificate, where—\n(a) the certificate was in force for a period beginning before 6 April 2012 (or, in the case of a refusal of a certificate, would have related to such a period if it had been issued), and\n(b) the cancellation, variation, surrender, refusal or issue—\n(i) is made after 6 April 2012 , but\n(ii) has effect from a date before that date.\n(3) An amended certificate issued by virtue of this paragraph must provide for it to cease to have effect as from 6 April 2012 .\n(4) In this paragraph and paragraph 60 “a certificate” means an appropriate scheme certificate or a contracting-out certificate in respect of a money purchase contracted-out scheme, and each of those terms has the meaning given by section 176(1) of the Pension Schemes Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 61(1) substituted (6.4.2016 unless brought into operation earlier by an order under s. 53(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 78(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 61(2)(a) substituted (6.4.2016 unless brought into operation earlier by an order under s. 53(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 78(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 61(2)(b)(i) substituted (6.4.2016 unless brought into operation earlier by an order under s. 53(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 78(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 61(3) substituted (6.4.2016 unless brought into operation earlier by an order under s. 53(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 78(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/1/schedule/4/paragraph/61",
    "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."
}