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The Personal Pension Schemes (Payments by Employers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Pension Schemes (Payments by Employers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2001.

(2) In these Regulations—

“scheme” means a personal pension scheme;

“stakeholder pension scheme” has the meaning given by Article 3 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999(1) (meaning of “stakeholder pension scheme”);

“statement year” has the meaning given by regulation 18(3) of the Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(2) (disclosure of information to members);

“trustees or managers”, in relation to a scheme, means—

(a)

in the case of a scheme established under a trust, the trustees of the scheme, and

(b)

in any other case, the managers of the scheme.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(3) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

(4) For the purposes of these Regulations and notwithstanding section 39(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954, where a period of time is expressed to begin on, or to be reckoned from, a particular day, that day shall be included in the period.

(5) Without prejudice to any other method of service authorised under section 24 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954, the requirement to send any document under these Regulations may be met by sending it by ordinary post.

(6) In these Regulations any reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 bearing that number.

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