{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993/section-175A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993/section-175A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/49",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993",
  "path": "section/175A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "175A",
  "heading": "Insurer and long-term insurance business",
  "text": "(1) In this Act “insurer” means—\n(a) a person who has permission under Part 4A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to effect or carry out contracts of insurance, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In this Act “long term insurance business” means business which consists of the effecting or carrying out of contracts of long-term insurance.\n(3) This section must be read with—\n(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n(b) any relevant order under that section; and\n(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 175A inserted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, arts. 1, 137(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 175A(1)(a) substituted (1.3.2017) by The Bank of England and Financial Services (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/80), reg. 1, Sch. para. 9(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 175A(1)(b) and word omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/193), regs. 1, 2(7); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/49/section/175A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:31.493981+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."
}