{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-134",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-134.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1995/3213",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-1995",
  "path": "article/134",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "134",
  "heading": "State scheme contributions and rebates",
  "text": "(1) In section 36 of the Pension Schemes Act (scope of Chapter II of Part III), in paragraph (b), after “members of” insert “money purchase contracted-out schemes and members of”.\nPara.(2) rep. by 1998 NI 10\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In Schedule 3 to that Act (priority in bankruptcy, etc), in paragraph 2(3)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), for “4.8 per cent.” substitute “the percentage for non-contributing earners”,\n(b) in paragraph (b), for “3 per cent.” substitute “the percentage for contributing earners”.\n(6) In paragraph 2(5) of that Schedule—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) after that definition insert—\n““the percentage for contributing earners”\n(a)in relation to a salary related contracted-out scheme, 3 per cent, and\n(b)in relation to a money purchase contracted-out scheme, the percentage which is the appropriate flat-rate percentage for secondary Class 1 contributions,\n“the percentage for non-contributing earners” means—\n(a)in relation to a salary related contracted-out scheme, 4.8 per cent, and\n(b)in relation to a money purchase contracted-out scheme, a percentage equal to the sum of the appropriate flat-rate percentages for primary and secondary Class 1 contributions;” .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 134(3) repealed (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 64"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 134(4) repealed (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 64"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 134(6) repealed (7.6.2012 for art. 134(6)(a) and otherwise prosp.) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 1), s. 21(1), Sch. 6 Pt. 7; S.R. 2012/234, art. 2(1)(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2008/1",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2008/1",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2008/1",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1995/3213/article/134",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:42:36.088056+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."
}