{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-record-keeping-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-record-keeping-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2014/321",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Service Pensions (Record Keeping and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-record-keeping-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2014 Act” means the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014;\n“active member”, “deferred member”, “member” and “pensioner member” have the meanings given in Article 121(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;\n“beneficiary” means a person, other than a member, who is entitled to the present payment of benefits under a public service pension scheme;\n“money purchase benefits” has the meaning given in section 176(1) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993;\n“public service pension scheme” means—\n(a) a scheme established under section 1 of the 2014 Act (schemes for persons in public service) and any statutory pension scheme that is connected with it;\n(b) a new public body pension scheme and any statutory pension scheme that is connected with it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “member” was amended by paragraph 50(2) of Schedule 9 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)); the definition of “pensioner member” was amended by paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 5 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)) and Article 11(7) of S.I. 2006/745; see also the definition of “pension credit member” as inserted by paragraph 50(3) of Schedule 9 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 49; the definition of “money purchase benefits” was amended by section 27(1) of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3 (N.I.)) and paragraph 19 of the Schedule to S.R. 2005 No. 434"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/321/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:04:32.374493+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."
}