The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2007 No. 185

PENSIONS

The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Made

20th March 2007

Coming into operation

6th April 2007

The Department for Social Development, being a Department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2), in relation to personal and occupational pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, sections 1(1), 5(2B)(c), 8C(1)(a), 12(3), 16(1), 24(2)(b) and (4), 67(6), 109(1) and (2) and 177(2) to (4) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993(3), Articles 35(7), 40(1), 66A(3), 73(2)(b), 73B(8) and 166(1) to (3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(4), Articles 3(5)(c) and 73(4) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999(5), and now vested in it(6), and Articles 165(1)(a), 200(1)(b) and (2), 203(1)(b), 206(4), 218(8)(c), 219(10), 226(2)(a), 236(1), 263(6), 264(1), 265(1), 268(1) and 287(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005(7).

(1)

See Schedule 2 to the European Communities (Designation) (No. 7) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3328)

(2)

1972 c. 68

(3)

1993 c. 49; section 1 was amended by Article 216 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)); section 5(2B) was substituted by Article 133(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)) and amended by paragraph 38(2) of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671); section 8C was inserted by Article 133(5) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995; section 12(3) was amended by paragraph 21 of Schedule 3 to that Order, see also paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)); section 16(1) was amended by paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 5 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)); section 24(2)(b) was amended by paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 5 to that Act; section 24(4) was amended by paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 5 to that Act and Article 261(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005; section 109(1) was amended by section 48(1) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000

(4)

S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22); Article 35 was substituted by Article 221 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005; Article 40 was amended by Article 152 of S.I. 2001/3649, Article 26 of S.I. 2004/355 and paragraph 45 of Schedule 10 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005; Article 66A was inserted by section 51 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000; Article 73 was substituted, and Article 73B inserted, by Article 247(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

(5)

S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)

(6)

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

(7)

S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1); Part III is modified in its application to partially guaranteed schemes by S.R. 2005 No. 55, in its application to hybrid schemes by S.R. 2005 No. 84 and in its application to multi-employer schemes by S.R. 2005 No. 91 (as amended by S.R. 2005 Nos. 194 and 357) and Part IV is modified by S.R. 2005 Nos. 568 and 570