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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-inherited-serps-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-inherited-serps-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/441",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Inherited SERPS) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-inherited-serps-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Regulations made by the Department for Social Development and laid before the Assembly under Article 49(8) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 for approval of the Assembly before the expiration of six months from the date of their coming into operation\nSOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 31st December 2001\nComing into operation 6th October 2002\nThe Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 49(1) and (2) and 73(4) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, and now vested in it, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11); Article 49 was amended by section 35(3) to (5) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/441/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:09:23.831235+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."
}