1997 No. 271
The Register of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
Made
Coming into operation
The Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 2(2), 177(2) to (4) and 178(1) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 19931 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Register of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 29th June 1997.
2
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19542 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Assembly.
Amendment of the Register of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes Regulations2
1
The Register of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19973 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
2
In regulation 1 for paragraph (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
5
Notwithstanding section 24(1) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954, a notice under regulation 2(2)(b) or 6(3) may be sent by ordinary post to the trustees.
3
In regulation 2(2)(b) (information required in respect of registrable schemes) for the words from “receipt of a written notice” to “these Regulations,” there shall be substituted “Registrar's, on or after the date of coming into operation of these Regulations, sending by post to the trustees a written notice requiring that information to be furnished,”.
4
In regulation 6(3) (transitional provisions) for “by 30th June 1997” there shall be substituted “within 3 months of the Registrar’s sending by post to the trustees a written notice requiring that information to be furnished”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)