The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990

9.  In Article 53C of the Pensions Order (extinguishment of scheme’s liability for pensions appropriately secured by insurance policies or annuity contracts), in paragraph (4) (meaning of “appropriately secured”), for sub-paragraph (a) substitute the following sub-paragraph—

(a)the insurance company with which it is or was taken out or entered into—

(i)is, or was at the relevant time, carrying on ordinary long-term insurance business in the United Kingdom or any other member State; and

(ii)satisfies, or satisfied at the relevant time, prescribed requirements; and.