{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-59.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/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Requirement to keep records",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Chapter 1 or 2, the Department may by regulations make provision requiring any person—\n(a) to keep, in such form and manner as may be prescribed, such records as may be prescribed;\n(b) to preserve those records for such period, not exceeding 6 years, as may be prescribed;\n(c) to provide those records to the Regulator on receiving a notification requesting them .\n(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may provide that Article 10 of the 1995 Order (civil penalties) applies to a person who fails to comply with those requirements.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 59(1)(c) substituted (7.6.2012) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 33(2), 34(3); S.R. 2012/233, art. 2(2)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 59 partly in force; s. 59 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 118(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/13/section/59",
    "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."
}