
2005 No. 192 (C. 14)
PENSIONS
The Pensions (2005 Order) (Commencement No. 3, Appointed Day, Transitional Provisions and Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005
Made 5th April 2005
The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 1(2) and (6), 86(7) and 287(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and interpretation
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(1) This Order may be cited as the Pensions (2005 Order) (Commencement No. 3, Appointed Day, Transitional Provisions and Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005.
(2) In this Order –
 “the Order” means the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005;
 “the Winding Up Regulations” means the Occupational Pension Schemes (Winding Up) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996.
Appointed days
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(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2) Subject to paragraph (3) the day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions specified in the Schedule is 6th April 2005.
(3) Notwithstanding the repeals in Article 74 of the 1995 Order (discharge of liabilities by insurance, etc.) mentioned in the Schedule, that Article shall continue to have effect as it applied immediately before 6th April 2005 to any scheme which –
(a) was regarded at that time by virtue of regulation 2 of the Winding Up Regulations as having begun to be wound up for the purposes of those Regulations, or
(b) in accordance with Article 121(4) to (8) of the 1995 Order began to wind up before that date.
(4) In paragraph (3) the reference to a scheme includes a reference to any section of a scheme to which Article 74 of the 1995 Order applies as if it were a scheme by virtue of regulation 12 of the Winding Up Regulations.
Amendment of the Pensions (2005 Order) (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order
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In Schedule 3 to the Pensions (2005 Order) (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (provisions referred to in Article 5 which are to continue to have effect as if they were in operation immediately before their amendment or repeal by the Order) after the entry in the table relating to Article 101 –
(a) in the first column there shall be inserted “Article 121(1)”, and
(b) in the second column there shall be inserted “Interpretation of Part II”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 5th April 2005.
John O'Neill
A senior officer of the
Department for Social Development

SCHEDULE
PROVISIONS OF THE ORDER COMING INTO OPERATION ON 6th APRIL 2005
Article 2(2)


Provisions of the Order Subject matter
Article 148 Postponement of compensation entitlement for the assessment period
The following repeals in Schedule 11 and Article 291 in so far as it relates to them –
 the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, Articles 74 and 75(9) Repeals