{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-entry-rules-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-entry-rules-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-22.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/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Refusal to assume responsibility – new schemes created to replace existing schemes",
  "text": "(1) The prescribed period referred to in Article 131(1)(a) (new schemes created to replace existing schemes) during which the Board must be satisfied that a new occupational pension scheme was established shall be the period of 3 years preceding the date on which an assessment period began in relation to the scheme.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall have effect in relation to –\n(a) a section of a segregated scheme;\n(b) a multi-employer section of a segregated scheme, or\n(c) a segregated part of –\n(i) a multi-employer section of a segregated scheme, or\n(ii) a non-segregated scheme,\nas if that section, or segregated part, were a separate occupational pension scheme.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 in operation at 6.4.2005, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 131(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 is modified by S.R. 2005 No. 91 in its application to sections and multi-employer sections of segregated schemes and segregated parts of multi-employer sections of segregated schemes and non-segregated schemes"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/126/regulation/22",
    "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."
}