Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008

Supplementary provision about the duties

Information to be given to workers

10.—(1) The Department must make provision by regulations—

(a) for all jobholders to be given information about the effect of sections 2 to 8 in relation to them;

(b) for all workers to whom section 9 applies to be given information about the effect of that section in relation to them;

(c) for a prescribed person to be required to provide the information.

(2) Regulations under this section must state—

(a) what information must be given;

(b) in what circumstances it must be given;

(c) how and when it must be given.

Information to be given to the Pensions Regulator

11.—(1) The Department may make regulations requiring employers to provide the Pensions Regulator (“the Regulator”) with information about action they have taken or intend to take for the purposes of any provision of, or of regulations under, sections 2 to 10.

(2) The regulations may in particular—

(a) require an employer to provide information about pension schemes to which any action relates;

(b) require an employer to identify which of any prescribed descriptions a scheme falls within;

(c) require an employer to provide information that appears to the Department to be required for the performance by the Regulator of its functions under Chapter 2;

(d) make provision about how and in what form any information is to be provided.

Introduction of employers' duties

12.  The Department may by regulations provide that sections 2 to 9 do not apply in the case of an employer of any description until such date after the coming into operation of those sections as is prescribed in relation to employers of that description.