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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-1",
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  "legislation": "nia/2014/2",
  "legislation_title": "Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014",
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  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Schemes for persons in public service",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may establish schemes for the payment of pensions and other benefits to or in respect of persons specified in subsection (2).\n(2) Those persons are—\n(a) civil servants;\n(b) holders of judicial office;\n(c) local government workers;\n(d) teachers;\n(e) health service workers;\n(f) fire and rescue workers;\n(g) members of the police service.\n(3) These terms are defined in Schedule 1.\n(4) In this Act, regulations under this section are called “scheme regulations”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in operation at 28.4.2014 by S.R. 2014/123, art. 2(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/2/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:25.842529+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."
}