{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/191",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2",
  "text": "In regulation 2 (interpretation) –\n(a) in paragraph (1) –\n(i) after the definition of “the 1998 Order” there shall be inserted the following definition –\n““the 2002 Act” means the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002;\n“advance period” means the period specified in regulation 4D(2);”;\n(ii) in the definition of “benefit” after “under the Order” there shall be inserted “, state pension credit under the 2002 Act”;\n(iii) after the definition of “employment officer” there shall be inserted the following definition –\n““guarantee credit” is to be construed in accordance with sections 1 and 2 of the 2002 Act;”;\n(iv) after the definition of “personal pension scheme” there shall be inserted the following definition –\n““qualifying age” has the same meaning as in section 1(6) of the 2002 Act;”;\n(v) after the definition of “retirement annuity contract” there shall be inserted the following definition –\n““state pension credit” means state pension credit under the 2002 Act;\n“State Pension Credit Regulations” means the State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003;”; and\n(b) after paragraph (2), there shall be inserted the following paragraph –\n“(2A) In these Regulations, references to “beneficiary” include any person entitled to state pension credit.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 7.4.2003, see reg. 1(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “personal pension scheme” was inserted by regulation 5(2) of S.R. 1995 No. 367"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “retirement annuity contract” was inserted by regulation 5(2) of S.R. 1995 No. 367"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 2003 No. 28"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/191/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:03:21.945114+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."
}