Article 2 Appointed days

(1)

The day appointed for the coming into operation of—

(a)

in Part 2 of Schedule 4 to the Act (abolition of contracting-out for defined contribution pension schemes: further amendments)—

(i)

paragraph 45 in so far as it relates to paragraph 59, and

(ii)

paragraph 59^f1 in so far as it is not already in operation, and

(b)

Part 7 of Schedule 6 to the Act (abolition of contracting-out for defined contribution pension schemes: further repeals) in so far as it relates to the repeal of the following provisions—

(i)

in paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993^f2 in sub-paragraph (5) the definition of “appropriate flat-rate percentage”, and

(ii)

Article 134(6)(a) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995^f3,

is 7th June 2012.

(2)

The day appointed for the coming into operation of Part 7 of Schedule 6 to the Act in so far as it relates to the repeal of Article 136 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 is 6th April 2015.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Paragraph 59(4)(b) and (c) was substituted by section 25 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3 (N.I.))
f2: 1993 c. 49
f3: S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)