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

Circumstances in which schemes may change mode of contracting out

39.  Subject to any regulations made under Article 146 of the Order, a scheme which has been contracted out by virtue of section 5(3) of the Act may become contracted out under section 5(2) of the Act only if its trustees have been discharged of all liability to give effect to protected rights.