{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-231",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-231.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2005/255",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/231",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "231",
  "heading": "Representative of non-UK scheme to be treated as trustee",
  "text": "(1) In the case of an occupational pension scheme that has its main administration outside the United Kingdom, a reference in pensions legislation to the trustees, or a trustee, of the scheme includes a person who is for the time being appointed by the trustees of the scheme to be a representative of the scheme for the purposes of this Article.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a prescribed reference.\n(3) In paragraph (1) “pensions legislation” means any statutory provision contained in or made by virtue of—\n(a) the Pension Schemes Act,\n(b) the 1995 Order,\n(c) Parts II to V of the 1999 Order, ...\n(d) this Order, or\n(e) the Pension Schemes Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 , or\n(f) Part 2 of the Pension Schemes Act 2021.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 231(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/193), regs. 1, 5(7)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 231(3)(c) omitted (16.1.2016) by virtue of Pension Schemes Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 1), s. 52, Sch. 2 para. 31(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 231(3)(e) and word inserted (16.1.2016) by Pension Schemes Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 1), s. 52, Sch. 2 para. 31(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in art. 231(3)(d) omitted (11.2.2021 for specified purposes, 1.8.2022 in so far as not already in operation) by virtue of Pension Schemes Act 2021 (c. 1), s. 131(1)(3)(a), Sch. 6 para. 19(a); S.R. 2022/197, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 231(3)(f) and word inserted (11.2.2021 for specified purposes, 1.8.2022 in so far as not already in operation) by Pension Schemes Act 2021 (c. 1), s. 131(1)(3)(a), Sch. 6 para. 19(b); S.R. 2022/197, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 231 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/193), regs. 1, 5(7)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2005/255/article/231",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:49.445550+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."
}