PART 2Modification of contracting-out provisions

Application of this Part3

This Part applies where—

a

an election is made under section 7 (elections as to employments covered by contracting-out certificates) of the 1993 Act4 in relation to persons who become members of the new scheme on or after 1st April 2015 and before 6th April 2016 (whether or not any of those persons are members of the old scheme); and

b

the new scheme satisfies the requirements of section 5 (requirements for certification of schemes) of the 1993 Act5.

Contracting-out4

1

Part 2 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting Out) Regulations (Northern Ireland)19966 (certification of employments) is modified as follows in its application to the new scheme.

2

The requirements in regulation 2(1)(a) (making of elections for the issue of contracting-out certificates) and regulations 3 (notices by employers of intended election) to 5 (time for making an election) do not apply.

3

In regulation 6 (information to be included in an election)—

a

paragraph (1) is to be read as though, for sub-paragraphs (a) to (f), there were substituted—

a

the name by which the new scheme is to be known;

b

the name by which the old scheme is known; and

c

any other information necessary to enable the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to identify the old scheme.

b

paragraphs (2) and (3) do not apply.