{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-77",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-77.json",
  "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/77",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Extension of definition of worker",
  "text": "The Department may by regulations make provision for this Part to apply with or without modifications—\n(a) as if any individual of a prescribed description (who would not otherwise be a worker) were a worker,\n(b) as if there were in the case of any such individual a worker's contract of a prescribed description under which the individual works, and\n(c) as if a person of a prescribed description were the employer under that contract.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 77 partly in force; s. 77 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 118(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/13/section/77",
    "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."
}