{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-northern-ireland-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/137",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Increase (Review) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-northern-ireland-2012",
  "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 11th April 2011 the increase is 5.2%.\nFor pensions which began on or after 11th April 2011 the increases are as follows:—\nPensions Beginning\nPercentage Increase\nPensions Beginning\nPercentage Increase\n11th April 2011 to\n24th April 2011\n5.20%\n25th November 2011 to\n24th December 2011\n1.73%\n25th April 2011 to\n24th May 2011\n4.77%\n25th December 2011 to\n24th January 2012\n1.30%\n25th May 2011 to\n24th June 2011\n4.33%\n25th January 2012 to\n24th February 2012\n0.87%\n25th June 2011 to\n24th July 2011\n3.90%\n25th February 2012 to\n24th March 2012\n0.43%\n25th July 2011 to\n24th August 2011\n3.47%\n25th August 2011 to\n24th September 2011\n3.03%\n25th September 2011 to\n24th October 2011\n2.60%\n25th October 2011 to\n24th November 2011\n2.17%\nThe Order provides for increases on certain deferred lump sums which became payable on or after 11th April 2011 and before 9th April 2012.\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/2012/137/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:16:35.261481+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."
}