{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-schemes-that-were-contracted-out-no2-regulations-2015/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-schemes-that-were-contracted-out-no2-regulations-2015/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1677",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Schemes that were Contracted-out) (No.2) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-schemes-that-were-contracted-out-no2-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Notification of requirement to pay a contributions equivalent premium",
  "text": "(1) Where a contributions equivalent premium is required to be paid in respect of an earner by virtue of section 55(2) of the 1993 Act (payment of state scheme premiums on termination of certified status), the trustees of the scheme are to notify the Commissioners of that fact in such form as the Commissioners may reasonably require for the purpose of identifying the earner.\n(2) Such notification is to be given—\n(a) where the scheme is being wound up, within the period of two years starting with the date the scheme started to wind up; and\n(b) where the earner ceased to serve in employment which was contracted-out employment for any other reason mentioned in section 55(2A) of the 1993 Act, within the period starting one month before and ending six months after the date on which the earner so ceased.\n(3) The Commissioners may in any particular case or class of case extend the period within which notification is to be given—\n(a) if it appears to them that notification could not reasonably have been given within the period specified in paragraph (2); or\n(b) if—\n(i) the trustees are seeking to reach, or have reached, an agreement with the Commissioners as to the scheme’s liabilities for guaranteed minimum pensions or section 9(2B) rights of members through the scheme reconciliation service; and\n(ii) as a result of doing so, the Commissioners and the trustees agree that a premium is payable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 9(3) substituted (6.4.2017) by The Occupational Pension Schemes and Social Security (Schemes that were Contracted-out and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/354), regs. 1(2), 4(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1677/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:23.350228+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."
}