The Occupational Pension Schemes (Schemes that were Contracted-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Forfeiture of accrued rights N.I.

10.  Article 90(1)(1) of the 1995 Order (no forfeiture of entitlement under an occupational pension scheme) does not prevent forfeiture of section 5(2B) rights under a relevant scheme if—

(a) the person entitled to payments giving effect to those rights (“the pensioner”) is, in the opinion of the trustees of the scheme, unable to act by reason of mental disorder, and

(b) there is provision in the scheme that requires that, in those circumstances, sums equivalent to those payments—

(i) must be paid or applied for the maintenance of the pensioner, except in so far as they are not, in the opinion of the trustees, required for that purpose;

(ii) may, in so far as they are not, in the opinion of the trustees, required for the maintenance of the pensioner, be paid or applied for the maintenance of any dependants of the pensioner, and

(iii) must, in so far as they are not, in the opinion of the trustees, required for the maintenance of the pensioner or any dependant of the pensioner, be held by the trustees for the pensioner until the pensioner is again able to act, or if the pensioner dies before that happens, for the pensioner’s estate.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 10 in operation at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(a)

(1)

Article 90(1) was amended by paragraph 47(2) of Schedule 9 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999