Paragraph 2 Contracting-out

(1)

Part 2 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1996^f1 (certification of employments) is modified as follows in its application to this scheme.

(2)

The requirements in regulation 2(1)(a) (making of elections for the issue of contracting-out certificates) and regulations 3 (notices by employers of intended election) to 5 (time for making an election) do not apply.

(3)

In regulation 6 (information to be included in an election)—

(a)

paragraph (1) is to be read as though, for sub-paragraphs (a) to (f), there were substituted—

“(a)
the name by which this scheme is to be known;

(b)
the name by which the existing schemes listed in paragraphs 2 to 15 of Schedule 5 to the Act are known; and

(c)
any other information necessary to enable the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to identify those existing schemes.”; and

(b)

paragraphs (2) and (3) do not apply.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1996/1172. Part 2 was amended by section 1(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2), by section 1(2)(a) of the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998 (c. 8) and by S.I. 1997/786, 2002/681, 2005/3377, 2011/1245, 2011/1246, and 2013/2734.