{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-scheme-administration-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-scheme-administration-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/94",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Scheme Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-scheme-administration-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Circumstances where notice of non-payment of any amount payable to a scheme need not be given",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding regulation 20(b), where an amount, payable in accordance with the payment schedule, has been paid not later than 60 days after the due date, notice of non-payment in respect of that amount on or before the due date need not be given to the members of the scheme.\n(2) In the case of a scheme in relation to which there is more than one employer, notice of non-payment in respect of an amount payable in accordance with the payment schedule need not be given to members where their pensionable service is not with the employer who has not paid any amount in accordance with that payment schedule.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in operation at 6.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/94",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Scheme Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/486",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/69",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/421",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration and Audited Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/421",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration and Audited Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/421",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration and Audited Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/141",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/94/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:30:22.733371+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."
}