{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-financial-support-directions-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-financial-support-directions-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/378",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Regulator (Financial Support Directions, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-financial-support-directions-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Prescribed period",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the period prescribed for the purposes of Article 39(9) (financial support directions – prescription of relevant time) is 24 months.\n(2) Until 6th April 2010 (“the transition date”) the period in paragraph (1) is reduced by a period equal to the number of complete months remaining until the transition date.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a complete month means a period from and including the sixth day of a month to and including the fifth day of the following month.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 substituted (6.4.2009) by The Pensions Regulator (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/106), regs. 1, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/378/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:51:05.952010+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."
}