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PART IIOccupational Pensions

Supervision by the Authority

Removal of trustees: notices

5.—(1) Before the Authority make an order under Article 3 against a person without his consent, the Authority must, unless he cannot be found or has no known address, give him not less than one month’s notice of their proposal, inviting representations to be made to them within a time specified in the notice.

(2) Where any such notice is given, the Authority must take into consideration any representations made to them about the proposals within the time specified in the notice.

(3) Before making an order under Article 3 against a person, the Authority must give notice of their intention to do so to each of the trustees of the scheme, except that person (if he is a trustee) and any trustee who cannot be found or has no known address.

(4) Where the Authority make an order under Article 4 against a person, they must—

(a)immediately give notice of that fact to that person, and

(b)as soon as reasonably practicable, give notice of that fact to the other trustees of any trust scheme to which the order applies, except any trustee who cannot be found or has no known address.

(5) For the purposes of section 24(1) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) (service of documents by post) in its application to this Article, the last known address of any person is his latest address known to the Authority.