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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-24",
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  "legislation": "nia/2008/13",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Quality requirement: UK hybrid schemes",
  "text": "(1) A hybrid scheme that has its main administration in the United Kingdom satisfies the quality requirement in relation to a jobholder if it satisfies the requirements mentioned in whichever of these is the appropriate paragraph—\n(a) the requirements for a money purchase scheme under section 20, subject to any prescribed modifications;\n(b) the requirements for a defined benefits scheme under sections 21 to 23A , subject to any prescribed modifications.\n(2) Which paragraph of subsection (1) is appropriate for any hybrid scheme is to be determined by rules made by the Department.\n(3) The rules may provide for different paragraphs to be appropriate for different provisions of a scheme.\n(4) The rules may provide for the paragraphs to be appropriate as alternatives, for any scheme or any provisions of a scheme.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 24(1)(b) substituted (16.7.2015) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), ss. 38(3), 53(1); S.R. 2015/307, art. 2(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 24 applied (with modifications) (1.7.2012) by The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/122), regs. 1(1), 45(5)(6) (as amended (1.7.2012) by S.R. 2012/237, regs. 1(1)(b), 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (1.7.2012) by The Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1388), arts. 1(1), 2 (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 24 partly in force; s. 24 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 118(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 24 in operation at 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2012/266, art. 2, Sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nia/2016/1",
      "affecting_title": "Pension Schemes Act (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "Pension Schemes Act (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "Pension Schemes Act (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "Pension Schemes Act (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/13/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:20.497944+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."
}