The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
These Regulations are made in consequence of the revised procedures for contracting out contained in Part IV of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (“the Order”). Provisions of Part IV of the Order, for the purposes of authorising the making of regulations, and Article 166 of the Order, in so far as it was not already in operation, came into operation on 6th April 1996 by virtue of the Pensions (1995 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 (S.R. 1996 No. 91 (C. 4)).