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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-11/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-11/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2015/5",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 55A insert—\n“Shared additional pension because of a new state scheme pension credit\n55AA (1) A person is entitled to a shared additional pension under this section if—\n(a) the person attained pensionable age before 6 April 2016, and\n(b) the person is entitled to a new state scheme pension credit.\n(2) A person's entitlement to a shared additional pension under this section continues throughout his or her life.\n(3) The weekly rate of a shared additional pension under this section is equal to the amount of the new state scheme pension credit.\n(4) In this section “new state scheme pension credit” means a credit under Article 46A(2)(b) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 5 in operation at 6.4.2016, see s. 53(1)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/5/schedule/11/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:14.058015+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."
}