PART 1GENERAL

Citation, commencement and extent1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Occupational Pension Schemes (Schemes that were Contracted-out) (No.2) Regulations 2015.

(2)

These Regulations come into force—

(a)

for the purposes of regulation 45, on 31st October 2015;

(b)

for all purposes, other than that of regulation 33 and 45, on 6th April 2016; and

(c)

for the purposes of regulation 33, on 6th April 2019.

(3)

These Regulations, except for Part 8, extend to England and Wales and Scotland.

(4)

Parts 8 and 9, and this regulation and regulation 2 in so far as they relate to those Parts, extend to Northern Ireland.