Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1996
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1996/1172 |
| Year | 1996 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 6th April 1997.(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—to a numbered Part is to the Part of these Regulations bearing that number;to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in, or Schedule to, these Regulations bearing that number;in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation or Schedule bearing that number;in a paragraph to a lettered or numbered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter or number.(4) For the purposes of these Regulations, any person, government department or public authority who, under Part I of the Contributions and Benefits Act or regulations made thereunder, is, or is to be treated as, the secondary Class 1 contributor shall be treated as the employer of the earner in respect of whom the Class 1 contributions are payable.(5) For the purposes of these Regulations and without prejudice to paragraph (4) , there shall be treated as the employer of a self-employed earner to whom a scheme applies any person (other than that self-employed earner) , government department or public authority who makes or is liable to make payments towards the resources of the scheme in respect of that self-employed earner (either under actual or contingent legal obligation or in the exercise of power conferred, or duty imposed, on a Minister of the Crown, government department or any other person, being a power or duty which extends to the disbursement or allocation of public money) .qualifies him for benefits (in the form of pension or otherwise, payable on the termination of his service or on his retirement or his death) under the scheme which in the opinion of the Secretary of State are referable to that period, oris certain so to qualify him subsequently if it continues for a sufficiently long time and the rules of the scheme and the terms of his contract of service remain unaltered during that time.(7) Any document required or authorised under the provisions of these Regulations to be sent to any person shall be deemed to have been sent if it was sent by registered post or by recorded delivery service to that person’s usual or last known address or (in the case only of a document required or authorised to be sent to an employer) to the address of the principal place at which any employment to which the document relates is last known to have been carried on.
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