The Divorce etc. (Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
These Regulations amend the Divorce etc. (Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the Principal Regulations”), which make provision in relation to orders made for ancillary relief in proceedings for divorce, judicial separation or nullity of marriage, so far as those orders relate to the pension rights of a party to the marriage. In particular, they provide for:the updating of references to other regulations, which have been replaced since the Principal Regulations were made;the valuation of salary related occupational pension schemes, as governed by the amendments to the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 effected by Articles 148 to 150 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, which came into operation on 6th April 1997;the valuation of retirement annuity contracts excluded from the scope of Chapter IV of Part IV of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993;the transfer of information provided to the trustees or managers of a pension scheme by the party without pension rights after all the rights of the party with pension rights have been transferred to another scheme;limitation of the recovery by pension schemes of the costs of providing information for the purpose of the Principal Regulations.