{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-consequential-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-consequential-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/156",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-consequential-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1993 Act” means the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993;\n“the 2014 Act” means the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014;\n“the new scheme” means the pension scheme established by regulations made under section 1(1) and 2(g) of the 2014 Act; and\n“the old scheme” means the pension schemes established by—\n(a) the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions Regulations 1988; or\n(b) the Police Pension (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2009;\nregulations made under sections 25(2)(k) and 26(2)(g) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c.49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1988 No.374. Amended by S.R. 1988 No.438, S.R. 1989 No.106, 160 & 387, S.R. 1990 No.411, S.R. 1993 No. 223 & 327, S.R. 1996 No.4, S.R. 1997 No.259, S.R. 1998 No.240, S.R. 2001 No.369, S.R. 2002 No.100, S.R. 2004 No.384, S.R. 2006 No. 122, 123, 152, 268 & 313, S.R. 2007 No. 476, 484 & 485, S.R. 2009 No.143, S.R. 2010 No.43 & 348, S.R. 2012 No.64, S.R. 2013 No. 35 & 36, S.I. 2013/2318 and 2014 (c.2) (N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 2009 No. 79. Amended by S.R. 2010 No.348, S.R. 2012 No. 64, S.R. 2013 No. 35 & 36 and S.I. 2013/2318."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1998 c. 32. The powers conferred by sections 25 and 26 are extended by Articles 14 and 15 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1073 (N.I. 10)). Both sections have been modified by section 49 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (2000 c.32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/156/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:31.134277+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."
}