The Occupational Pension Schemes (Independent Trustee) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Cases where a partnership is the employer

4.—(1) Articles 22 to 26 are modified as described in this regulation in their application to any case where—

(a) a partnership is the employer or one of the employers in relation to a trust scheme;

(b) the partnership is insolvent; and

(c) the High Court has jurisdiction to wind up the insolvent partnership(1).

(2) Article 22 applies in relation to the scheme—

(a) if a person begins to act as an insolvency practitioner in relation to the insolvent partnership; or

(b) if the official receiver becomes the liquidator or provisional liquidator of the insolvent partnership.

(3) Where Article 22 applies in relation to the scheme, references to a company are to be treated as including any insolvent partnership that the High Court has jurisdiction to wind up.

(1)

See Part VI of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)) and S.R. 1991 No. 366