The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consultation by Employers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

1. Introductory Text

2. Introductory

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. Application of Regulations

   1. 3. Application

   2. 4. Excluded employers: occupational pension schemes

   3. 5. Excluded employers: personal pension schemes

4. Restriction on decision-making pending completion of consultation

   1. 6. Consultation required before decisions to make listed changes affecting schemes

   2. 7. Notifications to employers and duty to consult

   3. 8. Listed changes: occupational pension schemes

   4. 9. Listed changes: personal pension schemes

   5. 10. Listed changes: exclusions

5. Information provision and consultation

   1. 11. Requirement to provide information

   2. 12. Consultation under existing arrangements

   3. 13. Consultation in cases not covered by regulation 12

   4. 14. Election of representatives

   5. 15. Conduct of consultation

   6. 16. End of consultation

6. Miscellaneous

   1. 17. Employment rights and protections in connection with consultation

   2. 18. Exclusivity of remedy

   3. 19. Powers of the Regulator to waive or relax requirements

   4. 20. Waiver or relaxation of requirements: amendment of Schedule 2 to the Order

   5. 21. Waiver or relaxation of requirements: prescribed regulatory function

7. Signature

8. 1. SCHEDULE

      Employment rights and protections in connection with consultation

      1. 1. In this Schedule— “the 1996 Order” means the Employment Rights...

      2. Right to time off and remuneration

         1. 2. (1) An employee who— (a) is a representative falling within...

         2. 3. (1) An employee who is permitted to take time off...

         3. 4. (1) An employee may present a complaint to an industrial...

      3. Protections against unfair dismissal

         1. 5. (1) An employee who is dismissed and to whom sub-paragraph...

         2. 6. (1) The 1996 Order shall be amended in accordance with...

      4. Protections from suffering other detriment in employment

         1. 7. (1) An employee to whom sub-paragraph (2) or (4) applies...

         2. 8. (1) An employee may present a complaint to an industrial...

      5. Conciliation and appeals

         1. 9. In Article 20(1) of the Tribunals Order (which specifies the...

      6. Miscellaneous

         1. 10. Any provision in any agreement (whether an employee’s contract or...

         2. 11. (1) Any provision in any agreement (whether an employee’s contract...

         3. 12. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 11(3) the conditions regulating...

9. Explanatory Note