The State Pension Revaluation for Transitional Pensions Order (Northern Ireland) 2024, Section 1 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 02 April 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the State Pension Revaluation for Transitional Pensions Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 and shall come into operation on—
(a)17th December 2024 for the purpose of making an award on a claim for a state pension under regulation 15(1) of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) (advance notice of retirement and claim for and award of pension) to a person who reaches pensionable age(2) on or after 8th April 2025; and
(b)7th April 2025 for all other purposes.
(2) In this Article “a state pension” means a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015(3).
Commencement Information
I1Art. 1 in operation at 17.12.2024 for specified purposes, see art. 1(1)(a)
I2Art. 1 in operation at 7.4.2025 in so far as not already in force, see art. 1(1)(b)
S.R. 1987 No. 465; regulation 15(1) was amended by regulation 2(6) of S.R. 2005 No. 299 and Article 9(7)(a) of S.R. 2015 No. 411
For the definition of “pensionable age” see section 167(1) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 which refers to paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22))
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