Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Pensions
Made
19th July 2012
Coming into operation
9th August 2012
The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8A(4) and (5) and 109(1) and (3A) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993(1), Articles 41(1) and (6), 67D(4) and (5), 73B(4)(a), 75(5), 75A(4) and (5) and 116 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(2), and now vested in it(3), and Articles 127(3) and (4), 135(8)(b) and (9)(b), 140(2) and 209(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005(4).
Paragraphs 5, 8, 9 and 13 of the Schedule are consequential on the Statutory Auditors (Amendment of Companies Act 2006 and Delegation of Functions etc) Order 2012(5).
1993 c. 49; section 8A was inserted by Article 133(5) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)) and subsection (5) was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 1 (N.I.)); section 109(1) was amended by section 48(1) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)) and section 109(3A) was inserted by section 48(2) of that Act and amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22); Article 41 was amended by paragraph 10(1) of Schedule 5 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000, paragraph 46 of Schedule 10, and Schedule 11, to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)) and paragraph 22 of the Schedule to S.R. 2005 No. 434; Articles 67 to 67I were substituted for Article 67 by Article 239 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 and Article 67D(5) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008; Articles 73, 73A and 73B were substituted for Article 73 by Article 247(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005; Article 75(5) was amended by Article 248(3) of that Order; Article 75A was inserted by Article 249 of that Order; Article 116 was amended by paragraph 62 of Schedule 10, and Schedule 11, to that Order and paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1); Part III is modified in its application to partially guaranteed schemes, hybrid schemes and multi-employer schemes by, respectively, S.R. 2005 Nos. 55 (as amended by S.R. 2010 No. 32), 84 and 91 (as amended by S.R. 2005 Nos. 194 and 357, S.R. 2008 No. 132, S.R. 2010 No. 111 and S.R. 2012 No. 1); Article 127 is amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3 (N.I.)) and is modified by S.R. 2005 No. 137; Article 135 is amended by paragraphs 9 and 14 of Schedule 4 to that Act; Article 209(3) was amended by paragraph 7 of Schedule 5 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008