{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2008/13",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Third party compliance notices",
  "text": "(1) The Regulator may issue a third party compliance notice if it is of the opinion that—\n(a) a person has contravened one or more of the employer duty provisions,\n(b) the contravention is or was, wholly or partly, a result of a failure of another person (the “third party”) to do any thing, and\n(c) that failure is not itself a contravention of any of the employer duty provisions.\n(2) A third party compliance notice is a notice directing the third party to take, or refrain from taking, the steps specified in the notice in order to remedy or prevent a recurrence of the failure.\n(3) A third party notice may, in particular—\n(a) state the period within which any step must be taken or must cease to be taken;\n(b) require the third party to inform the Regulator, within a specified period, how the third party has complied or is complying with the notice;\n(c) state that, if the third party fails to comply with the requirements of the notice, the Regulator may issue a fixed penalty notice under section 40.\n(4) A third party notice may give the third party a choice between different ways of remedying or preventing the recurrence of the third party's failure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 36 in operation at 30.6.2012 by S.R. 2012/266, art. 2, Sch. Pt. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/13/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:20.497944+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."
}