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The Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009

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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2009 No. 139

Pensions

The Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009

Made

27th March 2009

Coming into operation

31st March 2009

This Order is made in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 161 and 287(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005(1).

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has made an Order(2) under sections 178(1) and 315(2) and (5) of the Pensions Act 2004(3).

Accordingly the Department for Social Development makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009 and shall come into operation on 31st March 2009.

The levy ceiling

2.  For the purposes of Article 160 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (amounts to be raised by the pension protection levies), the levy ceiling for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2009 is £863,412,967.

Revocation

3.  The Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008(4) is revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 27th March 2009

(L.S.)

John O’Neill

A senior officer of the Department for Social Development

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which corresponds to an Order (S.I. 2009/794) made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions under sections 178(1) and 315(2) and (5) of the Pensions Act 2004, specifies, for the purposes of Article 160 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (“the Order”), the levy ceiling for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2009.

Article 158 of the Order provides that the Board of the Pension Protection Fund must impose pension protection levies for each financial year falling after the initial period (as defined by Article 157 of the Order). Article 160 of the Order provides for the amount to be raised by the pension protection levies, subject to an annual ceiling. This Order specifies that the levy ceiling for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2009 is £863,412,967 (Article 2). It also contains a consequential revocation (Article 3).

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