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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/schedule/paragraph-3",
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  "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": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "“The material date” means the earliest of—\n(a) the retirement date;\n(b) the date on which the retirement pension under these Regulations commenced; and\n(c) the date on which the participator ceased to be employed in reckonable service or, as the case may be, to contribute under regulations 27 and 28 of the Principal Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 27 was amended by S.R. 1978 No. 147 regulation 3(f) and S.R. 1988 No. 167 regulation 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/260/schedule/paragraph/3",
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  },
  "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."
}