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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-northern-ireland-2011/article-5",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/129",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Increase (Review) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Reduction in respect of guaranteed minimum pensions",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) a person is entitled to a guaranteed minimum pension on 11th April 2011; and\n(b) entitlement to that guaranteed minimum arises from an employment from which (either directly or by virtue of the payment of a transfer credit) entitlement to the official pension also arises\nthe amount by reference to which any increase in the rate of an official pension provided for by this Order is to be calculated shall be reduced by any amount equal to the rate of the guaranteed minimum pension unless the Department of Finance and Personnel in accordance with the provisions of Article 69A of the 1975 Order, otherwise directs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6) Art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Inserted by S.I. 1979/396 (N.I. 5) Art. 10 and amended by S.I. 1986/1888 (N.I. 18) Art. 11(9) and 1993 c. 49 section 184 and paragraph 15(2) of sch. 7"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/129/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:22:13.739209+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."
}