{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-20D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-20D.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/121",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/20D",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20D",
  "heading": "Timing of election",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the period for making an election under paragraph 12(1) is 3 months beginning on the date shown on the notice issued by the Department following the claim for graduated retirement benefit, confirming that the elector is required to make that election.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the period for making an election under paragraph 17(2) is 3 months beginning on the date shown on the notice issued by the Department following W’s claim for a Category A or Category B retirement pension or, if later, the date of S’s death, confirming that the elector is required to make that election.\n(3) Where more than one notice has been issued by the Department in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) or (2), the periods prescribed in those sub-paragraphs shall only begin from the date shown on the latest such notice.\n(4) The periods specified in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) may be extended by the Department if it considers it reasonable to do so in any particular case.\n(5) Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the making of an election on or after claiming graduated retirement benefit or Category A or Category B retirement pension, but before the issue of the notice referred to in sub-paragraph (1) or (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 2A inserted (6.4.2006) by The Social Security (Deferral of Retirement Pensions, Shared Additional Pension and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/104), regs. 1(1), 7(2)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/121/schedule/1/paragraph/20D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:53:32.188904+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."
}