{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-28.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/28",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Article 27: consequences",
  "text": "(1) Any person who acts as an auditor or actuary of a trust scheme in contravention of Article 27(4) is guilty of an offence and liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, and\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment or a fine, or both.\n(2) An offence under paragraph (1) may be charged by reference to any day or longer period of time; and a person may be convicted of a second or subsequent offence under that paragraph by reference to any period of time following the preceding conviction of the offence.\n(3) Acts done as an auditor or actuary of a trust scheme by a person who is ineligible under Article 27 to do so are not invalid merely because of that fact.\nPara. (4) rep. by 2005 NI 1",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1995/3213/article/28",
    "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."
}