{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/262",
  "legislation_title": "The Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Restrictions on contributions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the rules of a stakeholder pension scheme may permit the trustees or manager to refuse to accept a payment to the scheme of less than £20.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not permit the trustees or manager to refuse to accept any payment made to the scheme by the Inland Revenue by way of tax relief, minimum contributions, minimum payments or any payment under section 38A(3) (reduced rates of Class 1 contributions, and rebates).\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), amounts in respect of income tax deducted and retained by a member as permitted by section 639 of the Taxes Act (tax reliefs: member’s contributions) shall not be treated as payments to the scheme.\n(4) The trustees or manager of a stakeholder pension scheme may refuse to accept any contribution if its acceptance would contravene the terms of the scheme’s tax-exemption or tax-approval under Chapter IV of Part XIV of the Taxes Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in operation at 1.10.2000, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 38A was inserted by Article 134(4) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and subsection (3) was amended by paragraph 52 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/119",
      "affecting_title": "The Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/119",
      "affecting_title": "The Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/262",
      "affecting_title": "The Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/110",
      "affecting_title": "The Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/744",
      "affecting_title": "The Taxation of Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes Legislation) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/744",
      "affecting_title": "The Taxation of Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes Legislation) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/744",
      "affecting_title": "The Taxation of Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes Legislation) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/120",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions (2008 Act) (Abolition of Contracting-out for Defined Contribution Pension Schemes) (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/262/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:43.107515+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."
}