{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/315",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prisoners who are not to be paid state pension",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 3, a person is not to be paid a state pension under Part 1 of the Act (state pension) for any period during which the person is a prisoner who is mentioned in paragraph (2).\n(2) Except where paragraph (3) applies, a person is a prisoner for the purposes of paragraph (1) where the person is—\n(a) a prisoner in Northern Ireland or elsewhere who is imprisoned or detained in legal custody in connection with, or as a result of, criminal proceedings;\n(b) a prisoner in Northern Ireland or elsewhere who is unlawfully at large;\n(c) a prisoner in Northern Ireland who is being detained—\n(i) under Article 53 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (removal to hospital of persons serving sentences of imprisonment etc) ; and\n(ii) on or before the day which the Department of Justice certifies to be the person's release date (if any) within the meaning given in Article 56(3) of that Order ;\n(3) Where a person outside Northern Ireland is a prisoner within paragraph (2)(a) or (b) and, in similar circumstances in Northern Ireland, the person would not have been a prisoner, the person is not a prisoner within paragraph (2)(a) or (b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/595 (N.I. 4); Article 53 was amended by paragraph 27 of Schedule 5 to the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order (S.I. 1998/1504 (N.I. 9)) and paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 6 to the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Article 56(3) was substituted by section 296(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) and amended by paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 5 to the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1216 (N.I. 1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/315/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:00:30.654806+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."
}