The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) (Statements of Benefits: Money Purchase Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Amendment of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations

2.  In regulation 17 of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014(1) (statements of benefits: money purchase benefits) after paragraph (10) add—

“(11) Paragraph (12) applies where—

(a) information must be given in accordance with this regulation by the trustees or managers of an automatic enrolment scheme to a member, and

(b) the automatic enrolment scheme is a scheme under which all the benefits which may be payable are money purchase benefits.

(12) Where this paragraph applies—

(a) the prescribed information must be set out in the form of a statement;

(b) the prescribed information, and any other information which is included as part of that statement, must not exceed one double-sided sheet of A4-sized paper (being one double-sided sheet of paper with the dimensions 210 by 297 millimetres) when printed, and

(c) the trustees or managers of the scheme must have regard to guidance published from time to time by the Department concerning content and layout.

(13) The trustees or managers of the scheme may give the prescribed information in a format which does not comply with paragraph (12) in response to a request by a member for it to be provided in an alternative format, where the trustees or managers are reasonably satisfied that it is necessary to do so to comply with their duties under Articles 62 to 66(2) of the 1995 Order (equal treatment).

(14) For the purposes of paragraphs (12) and (13), prescribed information is the information concerning the member’s money purchase benefits given under paragraphs (2) to (5) within the prescribed time in paragraph (7).

(15) For the purposes of paragraph (11)—

“automatic enrolment scheme” has the meaning given in section 78 of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008(3);

“member” does not include a member who is in receipt of benefits under an automatic enrolment scheme (within the meaning in this paragraph).”.

(1)

S.R. 2014 No. 79

(2)

Article 63 was amended by paragraph 14 of the Schedule to the Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 5 (N.I.)), regulation 3 of S.R. 2005 No. 377 and paragraph 23 of the Schedule to S.R. 2005 No. 434; Article 64 was amended Article 3 of S.R. 2016 No. 78

(3)

2008 c. 13 (N.I.)