{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Procedure for discharging on winding up rights of members with whom the trustees or manager have lost contact",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in respect of any member whose address for the time being is not known to the trustees or manager and in respect of whom—\n(a) correspondence sent by them to the member at his last address known to them has been returned undelivered, and\n(b) no contribution has been made to the scheme by him or on his behalf during the 2 years preceding the commencement of winding up of the scheme.\n(2) In cases where this regulation applies, the trustees or manager shall on the winding up of the scheme make a transfer payment in respect of the member’s rights to their choice of a stakeholder pension scheme, or to a scheme registered under section 2 of the 1999 Act and need give no notice of the transfer payment to the member either before or after it is made.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in operation at 1.10.2000, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "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": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2010/373",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/262/regulation/7",
    "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."
}