{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-inherited-serps-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-inherited-serps-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/124",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Inherited SERPS) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-inherited-serps-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Inherited SERPS) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Inherited SERPS) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In regulation 2 (modification of Part II of the Contributions and Benefits Act) after paragraph (3) there shall be added the following paragraph –\n“(4) Where, on or after 6th April 2006, a person becomes a person of a description specified in Column 1 of the Schedule and entitled to a widowed person’s lump sum under paragraph 7A of Schedule 5 to the Contributions and Benefits Act, paragraph 7B(3) of Schedule 5 to that Act shall have effect so that the half of the additional pension specified in paragraph (b) of the definition of “P” is increased by the percentage specified in Column 2 of the Schedule.”.\n(3) In the heading to the Schedule –\n(a) for “Regulation 2(2)” there shall be substituted “Regulation 2(2) and (4)”; and\n(b) after “persons of a specified description” there shall be added “and in the proportion of additional pension used in the calculation of a widowed person’s lump sum payable to such persons”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2001 No. 441"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 7; paragraphs 7A and 7B are inserted by paragraph 10(1) of Schedule 9 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/124/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
}