{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Manner of establishment",
  "text": "(1) A stakeholder pension scheme may (where not established under a trust) be established by means of one or more instruments in writing which provide for one or more contracts to be entered into between the manager of the scheme and each member of the scheme, or a person acting on the member’s behalf.\n(2) The manager of the scheme must be a person who is mentioned in section 632(1) of the Taxes Act (establishment of schemes approved as personal pension schemes under Chapter IV of Part XIV of that Act).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.10.2000, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/993 and S.I. 1997/2388"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/262",
      "affecting_title": "The Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 2(2)(3)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2013/72",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 2(2)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/13",
      "affecting_title": "The Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/110",
      "affecting_title": "The Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/262/regulation/2",
    "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."
}