{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-144",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-144.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1995/3213",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-1995",
  "path": "article/144",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "144",
  "heading": "Monitoring personal pension schemes",
  "text": "After section 29 of the Pension Schemes Act insert—\n“Appropriate schemes: “Blowing the whistle”.\n29A (1) If any person acting as an auditor or actuary of an appropriate scheme has reasonable cause to believe that—\n(a) any requirement which, in the case of the scheme, is required by section 5(5)(a) to be satisfied is not satisfied, and\n(b) the failure to satisfy the requirement is likely to be of material significance in the exercise by the Department of any of its functions relating to appropriate schemes,\nthat person must immediately give a written report of the matter to the Department.\n(2) No duty to which a person acting as auditor or actuary of an appropriate scheme is subject shall be regarded as contravened merely because of any information or opinion contained in a written report under this section.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1995/3213/article/144",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:42:36.088056+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."
}