Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Dissolution etc. (Pension Protection Fund) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 14th August 2006.

(2)

In these Regulations—

(a)

a reference to “the Act” is a reference to the Civil Partnership Act 2004;

(b)

a reference to “Schedule 15” is a reference to Schedule 15 to the Act;

(c)

a reference to a paragraph by number alone is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in Schedule 15;

(d)

“a modified pension attachment order” means an order—

(i)

to which paragraph 26(1) applies which has effect in accordance with paragraph 26(3); or

(ii)

which includes provision made by virtue of paragraph 20(2), as modified by regulation 4 of these Regulations, in relation to entitlement to PPF compensation; and

(e)

expressions defined in paragraphs 25(3) and 32 have the meanings given to them in those paragraphs.