The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Amendment of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

29.—(1) The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 32E, in paragraph (1), omit the words “or which is an occupational pension scheme within section 18(b) (occupational pension schemes with main administration in an EEA state other than the UK)”.

(3) Omit regulation 32J.

(4) In regulation 35—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a)(i), omit “or (b)”;

(b) omit paragraph (1)(b) together with the final “and”;

(c) in paragraph (2), for the definition of “competent authority” substitute—

““competent authority” means the Financial Conduct Authority or the Pensions Regulator;”.

(5) In regulation 39(7), omit sub-paragraph (a).

(6) In regulation 44, in the heading and the body of the regulation, for “EEA States” substitute “United Kingdom”.

(7) In regulation 45—

(a) in paragraphs (1) to (5) and (7), for “18(b) or (c)” substitute “18(c)”;

(b) in paragraphs (1), (3) and (7), omit sub-paragraph (b) and the “or” before it.

(8) In regulation 46, omit paragraph (b) and the “or” before it.

(1)

S.R. 2010 No. 122; amended by S.R. 2012 No. 237, S.R. 2013 No. 221, S.R. 2015 No. 310, S.I. 2015/575 and S.I. 2017/1255; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.