{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2012/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2012/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2012/3",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Certification for non-UK schemes",
  "text": "(1) Section 28 of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (sections 20, 24 and 26: certification that quality requirement is satisfied) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) This section also applies to—\n(a) a money purchase scheme that is an occupational pension scheme within section 18(b);\n(b) a personal pension scheme of a prescribed description for which provision is made under section 27;\n(c) a hybrid scheme that is an occupational pension scheme within section 18(b), to the extent prescribed.”.\n(3) In subsection (4) at the end add—\n“(d) for a scheme within subsection (3A), means a prescribed requirement.”.\n(4) In paragraphs (e) and (f) of subsection (6) for “section 26 agreements” substitute “ contribution agreements ”.\n(5) In subsection (8)—\n(a) for “ “section 26 agreements” means the agreement” substitute\n““contribution agreements” means—\n(a) the agreement”;\n(b) at the end add\n“, or\n(b) any agreement of the same or a similar kind that is required, in the case of a scheme within subsection (3A)(b), by regulations under section 27.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 partly in operation; s. 14 in operation for certain purposes at 2.6.2012 see s. 34(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 14 in operation at 7.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2012/233, art. 2(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2012/3/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:36.193402+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."
}