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

Notifications to employers and duty to consult

7.—(1) Any person falling within regulation 3(1) who proposes to make a listed change affecting an occupational or personal pension scheme must give written notice of that change to each employer in relation to the scheme.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply—

(a) in any of the four cases described in regulation 6(4) to (7), or

(b) where the person proposing the change is a relevant employer in relation to—

(i) an occupational pension scheme which is not a multi-employer scheme, or

(ii) a personal pension scheme.

(3) If his employees appear to him to include affected members—

(a) any employer notified under paragraph (1) who is a relevant employer, and

(b) any relevant employer falling within paragraph (2)(b),

must consult about the listed change in accordance with regulations 11 to 16.

(4) For the purposes of these Regulations “affected members”, in relation to a proposal to make a listed change affecting an occupational or personal pension scheme, means the active or prospective members of the scheme to whom the listed change relates.