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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-17/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "nia/2015/5",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "schedule/17/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The regulations must require the trustees or managers of an automatic transfer scheme to take steps to find out whether a qualifying member of the scheme has transferable benefits under another pension scheme.\n(2) The regulations may make provision—\n(a) about when a step is to be taken (for example, within a prescribed period after a person becomes a qualifying member or at prescribed intervals);\n(b) for the steps to be taken at any particular time to relate to a particular qualifying member, or to some or all qualifying members.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nia/2016/1",
      "affecting_title": "Pension Schemes Act (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/5/schedule/17/paragraph/2",
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  },
  "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."
}