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SOCIAL SECURITY PENSIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1975 - SECT 69A

69A.(1) This Article applies where the amount by reference to which an
increase in an official pension is to be calculated would, but for the
provisions of this Article, be reduced under Article 69(5) by an amount equal
to the rate of a guaranteed minimum pension.

(2) The Department of the Civil Service may direct that in such cases or
classes of case as may be specified in the direction

(a)no such reduction shall be made; or

(b)the reduction shall be of an amount less than the rate of the guaranteed
minimum pension;

(3) A direction under this Article may provide that where it has applied in
any case and ceases to apply in that case, the rate of the official pension
for any period following the date on which the direction ceases to apply
shall, in such circumstances as may be specified in the direction, be
calculated as if the direction had never applied.

(4) A direction under this Article may provide that the rate of an official
pension shall, in such circumstances as may be specified in the direction, be
calculated as if the direction had been in force at all times during such
period as may be so specified.

(5) A direction made under paragraph (2) may be varied or revoked by a
subsequent direction.]

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