The Occupational Pension Schemes (Winding up Procedure Requirement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2006 No. 297

PENSIONS

The Occupational Pension Schemes (Winding up Procedure Requirement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made

3rd July 2006

Coming into operation

24th July 2006

The Department for Social Development, being a Department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2), in relation to matters relating to personal and occupational pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, sections 109(1) and 177(2) to (4) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993(3), and now vested in it(4), and Articles 55(2)(h), 64(2)(a) and 287(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005(5).

(1)

See Schedule 2 to the European Communities (Designation) (No. 7) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3328)

(2)

1972 c. 68

(3)

1993 c. 49; section 109 was amended by section 48 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)), paragraph 13 of Schedule 10 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)) and paragraph 15 of the Schedule to S.R. 2005 No. 434

(4)

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

(5)

S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)