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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-employment-savings-trust-order-2010/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111490495",
  "legislation_title": "The National Employment Savings Trust Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-employment-savings-trust-order-2010",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1999 Act” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999;\n“the 1999 Order” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999;\n“the Act” means the Pensions Act 2008;\n“the NI Act” means the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008;\n“the corporation” means the National Employment Savings Trust Corporation established under section 75 of the Act;\n“data” and “personal data” have the same meanings as in section 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998;\n“employers’ panel” means the panel referred to in article 6(2)(b);\n“jobholder” has the meaning given by –\n(a) in relation to Great Britain, section 1(1) of the Act; or\n(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, section 1(1) of the NI Act;\n“member of the Scheme” means a person who has been admitted as a member of the Scheme under article 19 and whose pension account has not yet been fully discharged through the provision of one or more benefits under article 32;\n“members’ panel” means the panel referred to in article 6(2)(a);\n“member’s pension account” means an account maintained by the Trustee for a member of the Scheme comprising–\n(a) the member’s contributions;\n(b) contributions made by any participating employer;\n(c) any sums transferred into the Scheme in respect of the member;\n(d) investment returns; and\n(e) any other amounts paid to the Trustee to be applied to the member’s pension account,\nless any expenses and outgoings properly deducted by the Trustee;\n“the panels” means the members’ panel and the employers’ panel;\n“participating employer” means an employer that has been admitted to participation in the Scheme under article 18;\n“pension credit” means a credit–\n(a) in relation to Great Britain, under section 29 of the 1999 Act; or\n(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, under Article 26 of the 1999 Order;\n“qualifying arrangement” has the same meaning–\n(a) in relation to Great Britain, as in paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Act; or\n(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, as in paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Order;\n“rules” means rules made under section 67 of the Act;\n“the Scheme” means the pension scheme established by article 3(1); and\n“the Trustee” means the person appointed as trustee of the Scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c.30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2008 c.13 (N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The corporation was so named by S.I. 2010/3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1998 c.29. The definition of “data” in section 1 was amended by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36), sections 68 and 86 and Schedule 8, Part III."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "“Employer” is defined in section 88 of the Act and section 70 of the NI Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111490495/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:56:11.416192+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}