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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Pensions Ombudsman) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 1st July 1996.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Assembly.
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After regulation 2 of the Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Pensions Ombudsman) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991, there shall be inserted the following regulation—“
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(1) The Pensions Ombudsman may investigate and determine any complaint in relation to the administration of a scheme, involving an authorised complainant and the administrator of the scheme.
(2) Where the Pensions Ombudsman commences an investigation under paragraph (1), the provisions of Part X of the Act (investigations: the Pensions Ombudsman) shall apply in relation to the administrator as they apply in relation to the trustees or managers of the scheme.
(3) In this regulation—
 “administrator” means any person, other than the trustees or managers of a scheme or the employer to which the scheme relates or has related, concerned with the administration of the scheme;
 “scheme” means a personal or an occupational pension scheme.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
W. G. Purdy
Assistant Secretary
20th May 1996.