{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-low-earnings-threshold-order-northern-ireland-2003/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-low-earnings-threshold-order-northern-ireland-2003/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/85",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Pensions (Low Earnings Threshold) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-low-earnings-threshold-order-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Low earnings threshold",
  "text": "It is hereby directed that, for the purposes of the Contributions and Benefits Act, the low earnings threshold for the tax years following the tax year 2002–2003 shall be £11,200.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 44A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7); section 44A was inserted by section 29(3) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 and amended by paragraph 30 of Schedule 1 to the National Insurance Contributions Act 2002 (c. 19) subject to section 8(2) of that Act and Article 2(2)(a)(i) of S.R. 2002 No. 321; see also Article 2 of S.R. 2002 No. 57"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/85/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:04:30.253938+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."
}