{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-northern-ireland-amendment-rules-2005/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-northern-ireland-amendment-rules-2005/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/108",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-northern-ireland-amendment-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Rules 1981",
  "text": "Rule 2(1) shall be amended as follows:\n(a) after the definition of “assessment appeal” and before the definition of “Court of Appeal” there shall be inserted the following definition –\n““Commissioner” means the Chief Social Security Commissioner or any other Social Security Commissioner appointed under the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and includes a tribunal of Commissioners constituted under section 6D(5) of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943.”;\n(b) after the definition of “Court of Appeal” and before the definition of “entitlement appeal” there shall be inserted the following definition –\n““decision notice” means the record of the decision of the tribunal prepared in accordance with rule 18(1)(a);”\n(c) after the definition of “specified decision” and before the definition of “the Chairman” there shall be inserted the following definition –\n““statement of reasons” means the record of the reasons for the tribunal’s decision prepared in accordance with rule 18(1)(b);”\n(d) in the definition of “the Chairman” delete from “appointed” to “Ireland” and substitute the words “who is the Chairman of, or who constitutes, the tribunal hearing the appeal.”;\n(e) delete the definition entitled “the Secretary of State”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/108/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:53:40.616943+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."
}