Paragraph 1 I1

In this Schedule –

• “active member”, “deferred member”, “managers”, “pensioner member” and “trustees or managers”, in relation to an occupational pension scheme, have the meanings given by Article 121(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995^f1 as at 2nd December 2003;

• “member” means any active member, deferred member or pensioner member;

• “non-discrimination rule” means the rule in paragraph 2;

• “occupational pension scheme” has the same meaning as in the Pension Schemes Act (Northern Ireland) 1993^f2 as at 2nd December 2003;

• “prospective member”, in relation to an occupational pension scheme, means any person who, under the terms of his employment or the rules of the scheme or both –

  1. (a)

     is able, at his own option, to become a member of the scheme,

  2. (b)

     shall become so able if he continues in the same employment for a sufficient period of time,

  3. (c)

     shall be admitted to it automatically unless he makes an election not to become a member, or

  4. (d)

     may be admitted to it subject to the consent of his employer.

In paragraph 6 (procedure in industrial tribunals), “employer”, in relation to an occupational pension scheme, has the meaning given by Article 121(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 as at 2nd December 2003.

Any term used in regulation 11 (trustees and managers of occupational pension schemes) and in this Schedule shall have the same meaning in that regulation as it has in this Schedule.