{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-entry-rules-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-entry-rules-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/126",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Protection Fund (Entry Rules) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-entry-rules-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Payment of scheme benefits",
  "text": "(1) The commencement of a member’s pension or payment of a member’s lump sum or other benefits under an eligible scheme may be postponed for the whole or any part of an assessment period in relation to the scheme for which he continues in employment after attaining normal pension age in circumstances where –\n(a) the trustees or managers of the scheme have not received a notice from the Board to the effect that a notice issued by an insolvency practitioner or former insolvency practitioner in relation to the employer in relation to the scheme which confirms that a scheme rescue is not possible has become binding, or\n(b) the trustees or managers of the scheme have not received a binding scheme failure notice issued by the Board in respect of the scheme under Article 114(2) (Board’s duty where application or notification received under Article 113).\n(2) Where –\n(a) a member of an eligible scheme has died before the commencement of an assessment period in relation to the scheme, and\n(b) during the assessment period, a person becomes entitled under the scheme rules to a death benefit or a contribution refund (within the meaning of section 97AB(4) of the Pension Schemes Act) payable in respect of that member,\nthat benefit is, for the purposes of Article 122(2) (payment of scheme benefits), to be treated as having become payable before the commencement of the assessment period.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2009) by The Pension Protection Fund (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/78), regs. 1, 2(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2009) by The Pension Protection Fund (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/78), regs. 1, 2(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in operation at 6.4.2005, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/126/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:53:28.757539+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."
}