1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pension Protection Fund and Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations shall come into operation on 30th April 2013.
(3) Regulation 7(6) shall come into operation—
(a)in respect of a surviving dependant—
(i)who is receiving periodic compensation on 29th April 2013, and
(ii)is on a qualifying course on that date,
on the date that person leaves that qualifying course, and
(b)in respect of any other surviving dependant, on 30th April 2013.
(4) In this regulation “qualifying course” and “surviving dependant” have the meanings given in regulation 1(2) of the Pension Protection Fund (Compensation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005(1).
(5) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(2) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
S.R. 2005 No. 149 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations