{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-minimum-contributions-to-appropriate-personal-pension-schemes-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-minimum-contributions-to-appropriate-personal-pension-schemes-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/151",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Minimum Contributions to Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-minimum-contributions-to-appropriate-personal-pension-schemes-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Minimum Contributions to Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 6th April 1997.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in operation at 6.4.1997, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/151",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Minimum Contributions to Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/151/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:33.019553+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."
}