Citation, commencement and interpretation N.I.

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the State Pension Revaluation for Transitional Pensions Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 and shall come into operation on—

(a) 20th December 2023 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 9th April 2024; and

(b) 8th April 2024 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

I1 Art. 1 in operation at 20.12.2023 for specified purposes, see art. 1(1)(a)

I2 Art. 1 in operation at 8.4.2024 in so far as not already in force, see art. 1(1)(b)

(1)

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

(2)

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))

(3)

2015 c. 5 (N.I.)