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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-minimum-contributions-to-appropriate-personal-pension-schemes-order-northern-ireland-1998/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/136",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Minimum Contributions to Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-minimum-contributions-to-appropriate-personal-pension-schemes-order-northern-ireland-1998",
  "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) 1998 and shall come into operation on 6th April 1999.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/136/article/1",
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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."
}