The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Special provision for holders of pensionable judicial office

14.  In respect of earners who are holders of pensionable judicial office, any notice which is required or authorised to be given under these Regulations shall be treated as properly given if given either by the Lord Chancellor or by a government department and where this is done the Lord Chancellor or that government department, as the case may be, shall be treated as the employer of the earners for the purposes of sections 3(1)(a), (2) and (7), 7 and 30(1)(a), (2) and (8) of the Act and of any regulations made thereunder.