{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-northern-ireland-amendment-rules-2005/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-northern-ireland-amendment-rules-2005/note.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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Rules amend the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Rules 1981 to provide for a new route of appeal from the Pensions Appeal Tribunal to the Social Security Commissioners, who for these purposes are to be known as Pensions Appeal Commissioners.\nRules 3 and 4 provide for new definitions consequential on the amendments to the 1981 Rules.\nRule 5 provides for a notice of the decision to be sent to the parties by the Pensions Appeal Tribunal and for applications for a statement of reasons for the decision.\nRule 6 provides a new procedure for recording and preserving decisions of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal.\nRule 7 provides the procedure for dealing with applications for leave to appeal.\nRule 8 revokes expenses provisions relevant to the previous route of appeal.\nRule 9 makes a consequential amendment.\nRule 10 prescribes circumstances where an extension of a time limit under the Rules may be granted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/108/note",
    "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."
}