{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993/section-63.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/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Non-payment of state scheme premiums.",
  "text": "(1) If a person fails to pay any contributions equivalent premium which is payable by him at or within the time prescribed for the purpose, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) Where—\n(a) a person is convicted of the offence under subsection (1) of failing to pay a premium, and\n(b) the premium remains unpaid at the date of the conviction,\nhe shall be liable to pay to the Inland Revenue a sum equal to the amount which he failed to pay.\n(3) Subject to subsection (4), where a person is convicted of an offence mentioned in subsection (2), evidence may be given of any previous failure by him to pay contributions equivalent premiums within the time prescribed for the purpose; and in that subsection “the conviction” and “the offence” mean respectively the conviction referred to in this subsection and the offence of which the person is convicted.\n(4) Such evidence may be given only if notice of intention to give it is served with the summons or warrant on which the person appeared before the court which convicted him.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 51-64 repealed (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 37 (with savings until 6.4.2019 by S.R. 2016/106, arts. 1(1)(2), 2(7A) and with further savings in art. 2(6)(7)(7B)-(7F) (as amended by S.R. 2016/162, arts. 1, 5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 63 substituted (6.4.1997) by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), art. 147, Sch. 3 para. 51; S.R. 1997/192, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 63(2) substituted (24.3.1999 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/671, arts. 1(2)(b), 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 68; S.R. 1999/149, art. 2(c), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 63 modified (28.3.1997) by S.R. 1997/192, art. 4(2) (with art. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/49/section/63",
    "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."
}