PART 2Modification of contracting-out provisions

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1

Part 2 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 19968 (certification of employments) is modified as follows in its application to the new scheme.

2

The requirements in regulation 2(1)(a) (making of elections for the issue of contracting-out certificates) and regulations 3 (notices by employers of intended election) to 5 (time for making an election) do not apply.

3

In regulation 6 (information to be included in an election)—

a

paragraph (1) is to be read as though, for sub-paragraphs (a) to (f), there were substituted—

a

the name by which the new scheme is to be known;

b

the name by which the old schemes are known; and

c

any other information necessary to enable the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to identify the old schemes;

b

paragraphs (2) and (3) do not apply.