The Pension Protection Fund (Pension Compensation Sharing and Attachment on Divorce etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011
These Regulations implement the provisions of Chapter 1 and (in part) Chapter 2 of Part 3 of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (“the Act”), which permit the courts to make pension compensation sharing orders and attachment orders in relation to Pension Protection Fund compensation in proceedings related to divorce, dissolution of a civil partnership, or in cases of annulment. Pension compensation sharing and attachment orders may be made in relation to the shareable rights to pension compensation of a Pension Protection Fund member (“member”) by the Board of the Pension Protection Fund (“the Board”) in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the Act, Chapter 3 of Part III of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (“the 2005 Order”) and, in Great Britain, any corresponding provision.