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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/schedule-13/part-III/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/333",
  "legislation_title": "Teachers' Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
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  "path": "schedule/13/part/III/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a provision of these Regulations (“the new provision”) re-enacts with any modification a provision revoked by these Regulations (“the former provision”); and\n(b) the effect of the general rule is that a person to whom a protected benefit was being paid or might become payable is placed in a worse position than he would have been in if the former provision had continued to have effect,\nhe may by giving written notice to the Department within 3 months after 2nd November 1998 elect that the new provision is to apply in relation to the benefit as if it had re-enacted the former provision without modification.\n(2) A protected benefit is one paid, or capable of becoming payable, to or in respect of a person who before 2nd November 1998 ceased to be in pensionable employment or died.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 13 Pt. III para. 2 in operation at 2.11.1998, see reg. A1"
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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."
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