{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-northern-ireland-2008/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-northern-ireland-2008/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/123",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Increase (Review) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order.)\nThis Order provides for increases in the rates of public service pensions.\nThe increase to be made in the rates of such pensions is the percentage (or in some circumstances a fraction of the percentage) by which the Department for Social Development has increased the sums which are the additional pensions in long-term benefits, namely the additional pension entitlements accruing to employees in respect of their earnings after 5th April 1978.\nFor pensions which began before 9th April 2007 the increase is 3.9%.\nFor pensions which began on or after 9th April 2007 the increases are as follows:—\nPensions Beginning\nPercentage Increase\nPensions Beginning\nPercentage Increase\n9th April 2007 to 22nd April 2007\n3.90%\n23rd November 2007 to 22nd December 2007\n1.30%\n23rd April 2007 to 22nd May 2007\n3.58%\n23rd December 2007 to 22nd January 2008\n0.98%\n23rd May 2007 to 22nd June 2007\n3.25%\n23rd January 2008 to 22nd February 2008\n0.65%\n23rd June 2007 to 22nd July 2007\n2.93%\n23rd February 2008 to 22nd March 2008\n0.33%\n23rd July 2007 to 22nd August 2007\n2.60%\n23rd March 2008 onwards\nNil\n23rd August 2007 to 22nd September 2007\n2.28%\n23th September 2007 to 22nd October 2007\n1.95%\n23rd October 2007 to 22nd November 2007\n1.63%\nThe Order provides for increases on certain deferred lump sums which became payable on or after 9th April 2007 and before 7th April 2008.\nThe Order also makes provision for the amount by reference to which any increase in the rate of an official pension is to be calculated to be reduced by an amount equal to the rate of the guaranteed minimum pension entitlement deriving from the employment which gives rise to the official pension.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/123/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:37:09.114770+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."
}