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These Regulations may be cited as the Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Incentive Payments) Amendment Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 6th April 2000.
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(1) In regulation 3 of the Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Incentive Payments) Regulations 1987 (cases in which payments under section 7 of the Social Security Act 1986 are not to be made, or are to be made to prescribed persons)—
(a) in paragraph (1) for the words “(3) or (4)” there shall be substituted the words “(3), (4) or (4A)”;
(b) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—“
(4A) This paragraph applies to any case where a claim for the payment under section 7 of the Act has not been made in accordance with regulation 4 below before 6th April 2001.”
(2) In regulation 3 of the Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Incentive Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (cases in which payments under Article 9 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 are not to be made, or are to be made to prescribed persons)—
(a) in paragraph (1) for the words “(3) or (4)” there shall be substituted the words “(3), (4) or (4A)”;
(b) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—“
(4A) This paragraph applies to any case where a claim for the payment under Article 9 has not been made in accordance with regulation 4 before 6th April 2001.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Jeff Rooker
Minister of State,
Department of Social Security
14th March 2000