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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/486",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations amend a number of sets of Regulations related to the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 and the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (“the Order”).\nRegulation 1 relates to citation, commencement and interpretation.\nRegulations 2 to 14 contain miscellaneous amendments to the following sets of regulations, the—\nOccupational Pension Schemes (Internal Dispute Resolution Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996\nOccupational Pension Schemes (Member-nominated Trustees and Directors) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996\nOccupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996\nProtected Rights (Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996\nOccupational Pension Schemes (Minimum Funding Requirement and Actuarial Valuations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996\nOccupational Pension Schemes (Deficiency on Winding Up etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996\nContracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996\nOccupational Pension Schemes (Winding Up) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996\nPersonal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Protected Rights) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997\nOccupational Pension Schemes (Scheme Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997\nOccupational Pension Schemes (Modification of Schemes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997\nOccupational Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 (“the Disclosure Regulations”)\nOccupational Pension Schemes (Discharge of Liability) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997.\nRegulations 2 to 14 include amendments which—\nrequire complainants to be reminded of the existence of OPAS (the Pensions Advisory Service) earlier in the complaints procedure;\nclarify the position of schemes contracted-out in the Isle of Man within the UK contracting-out regime;\nclarify the definition of “section 5(2B) rights”;\nprovide for an additional case where, even if a debt (which arose when they ceased to be employers in relation to the scheme) is unpaid, former employers of a multi-employer scheme are not liable for debts arising at a later applicable time. This will apply where the sole reason the debt was not paid is that the employer was not informed of it in time;\nallow some flexibility in reporting to the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority late payment of contributions;\nextend the exemption to Article 67 of the Order.\nRegulation 15 is a transitional provision to ensure that the amendment in regulation 13(4) of these Regulations does not result in schemes having to comply afresh with regulation 4 or 8 of the Disclosure Regulations simply due to that amendment.\nAs these Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Social Security in relation to Great Britain, the requirement for consultation under Article 117(1) of the Order does not apply by virtue of paragraph (2)(e) of that Article.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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