2012 No. 331
The Occupational Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012
Made
Coming into operation
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Occupational Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2012.
2
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19543 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
Amendment of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations2
1
The Occupational Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19974 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
2
In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) after the definition of “independent trade union” insert—
“jobholder information” means the information specified in regulation 3 of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20105;
3
In regulation 4 (basic information about the scheme) for paragraph (2)6 substitute—
2
The information specified in Schedule 17 shall be given as of course, where practicable, to every prospective member, and where such information has not already been given to a person, it shall be given—
a
where the trustees of the scheme have received jobholder information in relation to that person, to that person within one month of the scheme’s receiving that information; or
b
where no jobholder information has been received, to that person within 2 months of that person’s becoming a member of the scheme.
2A
To the extent that any information specified in Schedule 1 has not previously been given to a member who was a deferred member of the scheme on 5th April 1997, such information shall be given to that member within 2 months of that member’s becoming a pensioner member.
4
In Schedule 1 (basic information about the scheme) for paragraph 2 substitute—
2
How persons who are eligible to be members of the scheme are admitted to it.
Revocations3
The following regulations are revoked—
a
regulation 8 of the Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19978;
b
regulation 3(4)(a) of the Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20109.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 5th September 2012
(This note is not part of the Regulations)