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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "nia/2015/5",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
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  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "When determining entitlement to, or calculating, an inherited deferral amount under this Schedule based on entitlement to an old state pension ignore—\n(a) any requirement to make a claim for that pension;\n(b) any provision suspending payment of, or disqualifying a person from receiving, any amount of that pension.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 5 in operation at 6.4.2016, see s. 53(1)(3)"
    }
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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."
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