{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-northern-ireland-order-1972/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-northern-ireland-order-1972/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1972/1073",
  "legislation_title": "Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-northern-ireland-order-1972",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 1954 c.33 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.\n(2) In this Order—\n“civil service” means the civil service of Northern Ireland;\n“district council” means a district council established under the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 1972 c.9;\n“government department” means a department of the Government of Northern Ireland;\n“local authority ” means—\n(a)before the date of the first coming into office of members of district councils, the council of a county, a county or other borough, or an urban or rural district, a new town commission, the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners or the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee;\n(b)on and after that date but before [ 1st October 1973], any authority such as is mentioned in paragraph ( a) or a district council;\n(c)on and after [ 1st October 1973], a district council, a new town commission, or the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee;\n“the Ministry” means the Ministry of Finance;\n“statutory provision” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1( f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 1954 c.33;\n“transferred provision” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1( g) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.\n(3) References in this Order to a transferred provision include a transferred provision contained in or made under a local or personal Act or an Act confirming a provisional order, and any reference in this Order to any transferred provision includes a reference to that transferred provision as extended or applied by or under any other transferred provision, including such a provision contained in this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1981 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1972 NI 21"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1972/1073/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:42:56.052161+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."
}