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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-3",
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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": "section/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Full and reduced rates of state pension",
  "text": "(1) The full rate of the state pension is the weekly rate for the time being specified in regulations.\n(2) The reduced rate of the state pension for a person is the following proportion of the full rate—\n1 35 × the person's number of qualifying years.\n(3) Once the full rate has been specified, the power to make regulations under subsection (1) may not be re-exercised so as to reduce the rate.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3(1) in operation at 25.2.2016 for specified purposes by S.R. 2016/68, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 3 in operation at 6.4.2016 so far as not brought into operation earlier by an order, see s. 53(1)(3)"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/5/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:14.058015+00:00"
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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."
}