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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Occupational Pension Schemes (Preservation of Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1999.
(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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In regulation 12 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Preservation of Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 (transfer of member’s accrued rights without consent)—
(a) in paragraph (3)—
(i) for “an actuary” there shall be substituted “the relevant actuary”;
(ii) in sub-paragraph (a) from “and, if that scheme” to “before the transfer” shall be omitted; and
(iii) sub-paragraph (aa) shall be omitted;
(b) in paragraph (4A) for “actuary” there shall be substituted “relevant actuary”; and
(c) for paragraph (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—“
(5) In this regulation “the relevant actuary” means—
(a) where the transferring scheme is a scheme for which an actuary is required under Article 47 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 to be appointed, the individual for the time being appointed in accordance with paragraph (1) of that Article as actuary for that scheme;
(b) in any other case, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries, or a person with other actuarial qualifications who is approved by the Department, at the request of the trustees or managers of the scheme, as being a proper person to act for the purposes of this regulation in connection with the scheme.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
John O'Neill
Assistant Secretary
10th September 1999.