{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-2015/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-2015/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/8",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-2015",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Power to require employer to arrange advice for purposes of section 51",
  "text": "(1) The Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland may by regulations specify circumstances in which an employer must arrange or pay for a member of a pension scheme, or a survivor of a member of a pension scheme, to receive appropriate independent advice for the purpose of satisfying a requirement imposed by section 51.\n(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular—\n(a) impose limitations on the amount that an employer may be required to pay;\n(b) prohibit an employer from seeking in any way to recover, from a member or survivor, costs incurred by the employer in complying with the regulations;\n(c) provide for Article 10 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)) (civil penalties) to apply to a failure by an employer to comply with the regulations.\n(3) In this section “employer” has the meaning given by regulations made by the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 52 wholly in force; s. 52 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes; s. 52 in force in so far as not already in force at 6.4.2015 see s. 89(1)(b)(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/8/section/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:06.331572+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."
}