{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/28",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Retirement pension income",
  "text": "There shall be added to the descriptions of income listed in section 16(1) of the Act (retirement pension income) the following paragraphs –\n“(k) any sum payable by way of pension out of money provided under the Civil List Act 1837, the Civil List Act 1937, the Civil List Act 1952, the Civil List Act 1972 or the Civil List Act 1975”;\n“(l) any payment, other than a payment ordered by a court or made in settlement of a claim, made by or on behalf of a former employer of a person on account of the early retirement of that person on grounds of ill-health or disability\n(m) any payment made at regular intervals under an equity release scheme.\n(n) any payment made under the Financial Assistance Scheme Regulations 2005.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 added (4.10.2004) by The Social Security (Housing Benefit, State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004/394), regs. 1(1)(a), 6(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 added (18.12.2005) by The State Pension Credit (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/513), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in operation at 6.10.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1837 c. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1937 c. 32"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1952 c. 37"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1972 c. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1975 c. 82"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/28/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:09.593277+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."
}