{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-entry-rules-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-5A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-entry-rules-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-5A.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/5A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5A",
  "heading": "European insolvency event",
  "text": "(1) An insolvency event occurs in relation to an employer on the fifth anniversary of the date that the insolvency proceedings mentioned in paragraph (2)(were commenced.\n(2) The insolvency proceedings are proceedings which—\n(a) on 20th July 2014—\n(i) relate to an employer which has the centre of its main interests in the territory of an EEA state other than the United Kingdom;\n(ii) have been commenced in that EEA state, and\n(iii) have not come to an end;\n(b) relate to an employer in relation to which a winding up order as mentioned in Article 105(3)(g) of the Order (insolvency events) was granted and which was later set aside by the court on the basis that the court did not have jurisdiction to grant the order because the employer did not have an establishment in the United Kingdom, and\n(c) relate to an employer in relation to an occupational pension scheme in respect of which an assessment period would have begun as a result of the grant of the winding up order mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) had that order not been set aside.\n(3) The insolvency practitioner is the liquidator in relation to the insolvency proceedings mentioned in paragraph (2)(a)(i).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In this regulation “insolvency proceedings”, “establishment” and “liquidator” each has the meaning given by Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5A inserted (21.7.2014) by The Pension Protection Fund (Entry Rules) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/195), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5A(4) omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Pension Protection Fund and Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/165), regs. 1, 5(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 5A(5) substituted (26.6.2017) by The Insolvency Amendment (EU 2015/848) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/702), reg. 1, Sch. para. 143(3) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/126/regulation/5A",
    "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."
}