Amendment of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Modification of Schemes) Regulations
7. After regulation 6 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Modification of Schemes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(1) (modification of schemes: 2004 Act) insert—
“Modification of schemes: the Registered Pension Schemes (Modification of the Rules of Existing Schemes) Regulations 2009
6A.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where any power to amend the rules of an existing trust scheme, as those rules stood immediately before 6th April 2006, is subject to the agreement, consent, approval or confirmation of continued approval, of the scheme by—
(a)the Inland Revenue, the Board of Inland Revenue, the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, or any officer of any of them (whether referred to as such or by reference to another title), or
(b)Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs or an officer of Revenue and Customs.
(2) Where this paragraph applies, the trustees of a trust scheme may by resolution modify the power of amendment mentioned in paragraph (1) so as to remove that requirement for agreement, consent, approval or confirmation of continued approval.
(3) Paragraph (4) applies where (apart from this regulation) the trustees of an existing trust scheme do not have power to make such alterations to the scheme as may be required to remove any requirement in the scheme rules, as they stood immediately before 6th April 2006, for the agreement, consent, approval or confirmation of continued approval, of the scheme by any of the bodies or persons mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) and (b).
(4) Where this paragraph applies, the trustees of a trust scheme may by resolution amend the rules of the scheme so as to remove that requirement for agreement, consent, approval or confirmation of continued approval.”.