Regulation 6 Amendment of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations

after the definition of “earnings period” insert—

• ““EEA agreement” means the agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992, together with the Protocol adjusting that Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993, as modified or supplemented from time to time;

• “EEA state”, in relation to any time, means—

  1. (a)

     a state which at that time is a member State, or

  2. (b)

     any other state which at that time is a party to the EEA agreement;”;

in the definition of “overseas scheme”^f2 for “member States” substitute “EEA states”.