The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Amendment of the Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Abatement of Benefit) Regulations

4.—(1) The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Abatement of Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 3(1)(2) (guaranteed minimum pension to which earner’s widow or widower is treated as entitled after minimum contributions have been paid) for “reaching pensionable age” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “effect is given to his protected rights under section 24(1A), (2)(a), (3) or (4)(3),”.

(3) In regulation 5(1)(4) (guaranteed minimum pension to which earner’s widow or widower is treated as entitled after minimum payments have been made) for “reaching pensionable age” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “effect is given to protected rights (including rights treated as protected rights as a consequence of regulation 6(1)(c)(i) of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Discharge of Protected Rights on Winding Up) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(5) under section 24(2)(a), (3) or (4) or as a consequence of regulations made under Article 142 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (extension of interim arrangements for giving effect to protected rights)”.

(1)

S.R. 1987 No. 291, amended by S.R. 1994 No. 300

(2)

Regulation 3(1) was amended by S.R. 1994 No. 300

(3)

Section 24(3) was amended by Article 139(4) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

(4)

Regulation 5(1) was amended by S.R. 1994 No. 300

(5)

S.R. 1996 No. 94