{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-freezing-orders-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/114",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Regulator (Freezing Orders and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-freezing-orders-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 15th March 2005\nComing into operation 6th April 2005\nThe Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 89A(2), 95(4) and 177(2) to (4) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993, and now vested in it, and Articles 19(10), 20(7)(a), 26(7)(c) and 287(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 49; section 89A was inserted by Article 149 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)) and section 95(4) was substituted by paragraph 8(c) of Schedule 4 to that Order"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1); see paragraph (b)(i) of the definition of “the actuary” in Article 19(10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/114/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:53:35.811516+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."
}