{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2015/5",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Pension sharing: reduction in the sharer's section 4 pension",
  "text": "(1) The rate of a person's state pension under section 4 is reduced under this section if the person is subject to a state scheme pension debit.\n(2) The amount by which the rate is reduced is the amount of the appropriate weekly reduction set out in Schedule 10.\n(3) A person's state pension may be reduced more than once under this section.\n(4) In this Part—\n“state scheme pension debit” means—\n(a)a new state scheme pension debit, or\n(b)an old state scheme pension debit;\n“new state scheme pension debit” means a debit under Article 46A(2)(a) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999;\n“old state scheme pension debit” means a debit under Article 46(1)(a) of that Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14(2) in operation at 16.7.2015 for specified purposes by S.R. 2015/307, art. 2(2)(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 14 in operation at 6.4.2016 so far as not brought into operation earlier by an order, see s. 53(1)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/5/section/14",
    "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."
}