Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 (c. 49)

Part VIII N.I. Relationship Between Requirements and Scheme Rules

126 Extra-statutory benefits. N.I.

It is hereby declared that—

(a) nothing in Part III precludes an occupational pension scheme from providing benefits that are more favourable than those required for contracting-out purposes and, in particular, nothing in section 12(3) is to be taken as preventing the scheme from providing increases above the alternative minima there mentioned; and

(b) nothing in the provisions of [F1 Chapter 2 of Part 4 or Chapter 1 or 2 of Part 4ZA] precludes a scheme from being framed or managed more favourably to beneficiaries than is called for by those provisions.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 126(b) substituted (6.4.2015) by Pension Schemes Act 2015 (c. 8), s. 89(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 70 (with s. 87)