The Occupational Pension Schemes (Levies) Regulations 2005

Avoidance of double liability: schemes in Northern Ireland

18.—(1) This regulation applies if, apart from paragraph (2), any of the levies would be payable in respect of a scheme in respect of which a corresponding Northern Ireland levy is imposed.

(2) The scheme is only an eligible scheme for the purposes of the levy in question if the address of the scheme is in Great Britain.

(3) For this purpose the address of the scheme is the place in the United Kingdom at which the management of the scheme is conducted or, if there is more than one such place, the principal such place.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a levy is a corresponding Northern Ireland levy—

(a) in the case of the administration levy, if it is imposed under any equivalent provision to regulation 4(1);

(b) in the case of the PPF Ombudsman levy, if it is imposed under any equivalent provision to regulation 4(2), and

(c) in the case of the initial levy, if it is imposed under any equivalent provision to regulation 9.