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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-minimum-contributions-to-appropriate-personal-pension-schemes-order-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
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  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 4th April 1996\nComing into operation 6th April 1997\nWhereas the Secretary of State for Social Security has made an Order under section 45A of the Pension Schemes Act 1993:\nNow, therefore, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 41A of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1056"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 48"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c. 49; section 41A was inserted by Article 135(5) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/151/introduction",
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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."
}