{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-24.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/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“the 1975 Regulations” means the Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975;\n“the 2015 Order” means the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015;\n“post-commencement qualifying year” and “pre-commencement qualifying year” have the same meaning as in section 4(4) of the Act (entitlement to state pension at transitional rate);\n“qualifying year” has the same meaning as in section 2(4) of the Act (entitlement to state pension at full or reduced rate);\n“working tax credit” means a working tax credit under section 10 of the Tax Credits Act 2002;\n“year” means a tax year.\n(2) Nothing in Chapter 3 is to be construed as entitling any person to be credited with earnings or contributions for any day or in respect of any event occurring before 6th April 2016.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 8 added (6.4.2016) by The State Pension (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/100), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/315/regulation/24",
    "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."
}