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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/260",
  "legislation_title": "Teachers' Superannuation (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Benefit limits",
  "text": "(1) The Schedule has effect for limiting the benefits that may be paid under these Regulations.\n(2) The maximum annual rate of a retirement pension or dependant’s pension ascertained from the Schedule may be increased by up to 3 per cent for each complete year that has elapsed, or in proportion to the increase in the Index that has occurred since payment of the pension became payable, if greater.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/260/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:35:23.219519+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."
}