The Register of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes Regulations 1997

Availability of information held on the register

6.—(1) The Registrar shall, on receipt of a written request containing sufficient information to enable the Registrar to identify the scheme in question, supply a copy of an extract from the register relating to a registrable scheme to—

(a) any person who is, or may be, or may become entitled to benefit under the scheme or any person acting on behalf of such a person;

(b) the Pensions Ombudsman appointed under section 145 of the 1993 Act(1);

(c) the Official Receiver or insolvency practitioner where section 22 of the Pensions Act 1995(2) applies;

(d) the Official Receiver for Northern Ireland or insolvency practitioner where Article 22 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(3) applies.

(2) The Registrar shall make available to the Pensions Compensation Board(4), and to the Regulatory Authority in connection with its functions other than under these Regulations, the information received under regulation 4(1) and 5.

(3) The trustees of a registrable scheme shall be entitled, on the first written request by them in any period of 12 months, to a copy of the information held on the register relating to that scheme.

(4) The Registrar shall on receipt of a written request supply to any person, other than a person the Registrar believes to have failed previously to comply with the condition imposed under paragraph (5), a copy of the information held on the register, or any part of it, except the information specified under paragraphs (b), (d) and (f) of regulation 3(2), subject to that person’s furnishing his written agreement to the condition specified in paragraph (5).

(5) Where information, other than that specified in regulation 3(3), is supplied to a person pursuant to paragraph (4), that person shall not use or permit the use of the information, or any part of it, for the purposes of marketing a product or service.

(6) Paragraph (5) shall not apply to a copy of any information which is treated as being supplied pursuant to paragraph (4) by virtue of regulation 8(1).

(7) Information supplied under this regulation shall be made available in such form as the Registrar may in its discretion determine.

(8) There shall be payable in connection with the supply of information under paragraph (4), a sum to defray the cost attributable to its production and, where applicable, packaging and postage.

(1)

Section 145 was amended by section 156 of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 6 to, the Pensions Act 1995.

(2)

1995 c. 26.

(3)

S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22).

(4)

The Pensions Compensation Board is established under section 78(1) of the Pensions Act 1995.