The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

3.—(1) Where the Board makes arrangements under paragraph 2(1) for any of its functions to be exercised by a person on its behalf, those arrangements may also provide for that person to exercise on behalf of the Board any delegable review function. N.I.

(2) Where the Regulator is required to or may exercise any function on behalf of the Board by virtue of—

(a) Article 164(4) or 171(8) (administrative functions relating to levies),

(b) Article 164(7)(b) or 171(10)(b) (recovery of levies), or

(c) regulations under Article 164(8) or 171(11) (collection, recovery and waiver of levies),

the Board may also require the Regulator to exercise on behalf of the Board any delegable review function.

(3) In this paragraph, “delegable review function”, in relation to a delegated function, means—

(a) any function, by virtue of Article 189(1)(a) or (3)(a), to give a review decision in respect of any reviewable matter arising from the exercise of the delegated function;

(b) in relation to any function exercisable by virtue of paragraph (a), any other function under regulations under Article 189(1) in connection with the giving of a review decision;

(c) any function conferred by paragraph (2) of Article 101 (supplementary powers), so far as that paragraph relates to any function mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

(4) In this paragraph—

• “delegated function” means a function which is exercisable on behalf of the Board as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) or (2);

• “executive member” has the meaning given by section 108(7)(a) of the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35);

• “review decision” has the meaning given by Article 189(1).