The Welfare Reform and Pensions (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2000 No. 68 (C. 2)

PENSIONS

The Welfare Reform and Pensions (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Made

9th March 2000

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 1(2) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999(1), and now vested in it(2), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Welfare Reform and Pensions (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000.

Appointed day

2.  The day appointed for the coming into operation of Article 11 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (late payments by employers to occupational pension schemes), in so far as it is not already in operation, is 3rd April 2000.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 9th March 2000.

L.S.

John O'Neill

Senior Officer of the

Department for Social Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order provides for the coming into operation of Article 11 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (which amends Article 49 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)), in relation to the payments to be made by employers to occupational pension schemes), on 3rd April 2000.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order.)

The following provisions of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 were brought into operation by the Welfare Reform and Pensions (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 494 (C. 38)) as from the dates shown.

Provision	Date of Commencement
Article 50	12.01.00 and 2.04.00
Article 58	3.04.00
Article 63	12.01.00
Article 64(1) and (2)	12.01.00
Article 67, Schedule 8 (partially)	16.12.99
(partially)	12.01.00 and 2.04.00
(partially)	3.04.00
Article 76, Schedule 10 (partially)	2.04.00

(1)

S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)

(2)

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481