{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-26.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/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) After regulation 2 (schemes to which regulations 3 to 6 do not apply) there shall be inserted the following regulation—\n“Limited exemption for stakeholder pension schemes\n2A In the case of a scheme which is a stakeholder pension scheme within the meaning of Article 3 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 regulation 5 shall have effect as if paragraph (2) were omitted.”.\n(3) In regulation 5 (information to be made available to individuals)—\n(a) in paragraph (1) for “regulation 2” there shall be substituted “regulations 2 and 2A”, and\n(b) after paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(7A) Where a stakeholder pension scheme within the meaning of Article 3 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 is removed from the register of such schemes kept under Article 4 of that Order the trustees shall—\n(a) within 2 weeks of being notified of the removal from the register inform each member of the scheme except an excluded person that the scheme has been removed from the register of stakeholder pension schemes and is no longer a stakeholder pension scheme and that it is required to commence winding up under the scheme rules;\n(b) as soon as practicable and in any event not more than 4 months after such removal provide each member of the scheme except an excluded person with the information mentioned in paragraphs 1, 2 and 7 of Schedule 2, and\n(c) where the scheme is unable to meet in full its liabilities to its members, as soon as is practicable and in any event not more than 4 months after such removal provide each member except an excluded person with the information mentioned in paragraph 8 of Schedule 2.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 in operation at 1.10.2000, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 288, relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1988 No. 107, S.R. 1992 No. 304, S.R. 1993 No. 126, S.R. 1994 No. 300, S.R. 1996 Nos. 95 and 508 and S.R. 1997 No. 160"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/79",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (DisclosureofInformation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/262/regulation/26",
    "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."
}