The Pensions Dashboards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023

Made: 6th June 2023

Coming into operation: 10th June 2023

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PART 1 — General

Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Application

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Dashboards Available Point

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Oversight of standards

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PART 2 — Prescribed requirements for qualifying pensions dashboard services

Qualifying pensions dashboard services

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Cooperation – providers

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Connection and functionality

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View data

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State pension information

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Operational information and reporting

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Information on making a complaint

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Enabling auditing

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PART 3 — Requirements relating to trustees or managers of relevant occupational pension schemes

CHAPTER 1 — Requirements relating to cooperation and connection

Cooperation – trustees or managers

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Connection according to the staging profile

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Early or voluntary connection

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Deferred connection

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Connection where the staging profile does not apply

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Connection where these Regulations cease to apply and then apply again

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Connection affected by an assessment period

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Notification of disconnection

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CHAPTER 2 — Requirements following connection of a pension scheme

Requirements relating to the provision of pensions information

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Find requests, matching, pension identifiers and view requests

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Administrative data

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Signpost data

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Value data

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Contextual information

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Operational information and reporting

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PART 4 — Compliance and enforcement

Compliance notices

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Third party compliance notices

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Penalty notices

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Penalty notices: recovery

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Penalty notices: recovery from bodies corporate and Scottish partnerships

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Review of notices

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References to the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal

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PART 5 — Disclosure of information

Disclosure of information

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PART 6 — Revocation

Revocation

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SCHEDULE 1 — Interpretation

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SCHEDULE 2 — Staging profile

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PART 2 — Medium schemes

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SCHEDULE 3 — Value data

PART 1 — Value data requirements

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PART 2 — Exemption from certain projected value data requirements

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 6th June 2023

David Tarr — A senior officer of the Department for Communities

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: See section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))

[^f00002]: S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1); Articles 215A and 215B were inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 to the Pension Schemes Act 2021 (c. 1); Articles 215D, 215E and 215G were inserted by paragraph 3 of that Schedule; see also Article 288(3)(ja) to (jc) as inserted by paragraph 5 of that Schedule

[^f00003]: See Article 215A(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 for the meaning of “pensions dashboard service”

[^f00004]: 2018 c. 10; section 4A was inserted by section 122 of the Pension Schemes Act 2021 and relates to the pensions dashboard service provided by the Money and Pensions Service (see regulation 2 of S.I. 2019/383 which named the “single financial guidance body” established by section 1(1) of the Financial Guidance and Claims Act 2018 the “Money and Pensions Service”)

[^f00005]: See Article 215F(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (as inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the Pension Schemes Act 2021) for the definition of “relevant occupational pension scheme”

[^f00006]: S.I. 2016/326; regulation 3 was substituted by regulation 5 of S.I. 2019/906

[^f00007]: See Article 215A(2) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 for the definition of “qualifying pensions dashboard service”

[^f00008]: S.I. 2022/1220

[^f00009]: Part 4A was substituted for Part 4 by section 11(2) of the Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21)

[^f00010]: S.I. 2001/544; Article 53(1) was amended by Article 9(1) of S.I. 2003/1476, Article 2(6)(a) of S.I. 2016/392, Article 4(4) of S.I. 2017/488 and Article 2(2) and (3) of S.I. 2017/500

[^f00011]: Article 53E was inserted by Article 2(2) of S.I. 2015/731

[^f00012]: Section 137FAA was inserted by section 121(2) of the Pension Schemes Act 2021

[^f00013]: Section 38(7) was amended by Article 274(4) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 and paragraph 34(2) of Schedule 12 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5 (N.I.))

[^f00014]: Regulation 29A was inserted by regulation 3(6) of S.R. 2018 No. 53 and paragraph (2A) was inserted by regulation 5(4)(b) of S.R. 2018 No. 165

[^f00015]: Paragraph 30(1) was renumbered by regulation 5(b)(i) of S.R. 2021 No. 272 and head (f) was added by regulation 5(5)(c) of S.R. 2018 No. 165

[^f00016]: 1971 c. 80

[^f00017]: 2015 c. 8

[^f00018]: Article 10(8A) was inserted by paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11))

[^f00019]: S.I. 2008/2698

[^f00020]: S.I. 2009/1976

[^f00021]: See Articles 79 and 81 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

[^f00022]: 2018 c. 12

[^f00023]: S.R. 2022 No. 296

[^f00024]: S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)

[^f00025]: S.R. 2014 No. 79

[^f00026]: S.R. 2005 No. 91

[^f00027]: 2008 c. 13 (N.I.)

[^f00028]: 2021 c. 1

[^f00029]: Part 1A (sections 1A to 3S) was substituted for Part 1 by section 6(1) of the Financial Services Act 2012

[^f00030]: 2000 c. 8

[^f00031]: 2021 c. 6 (N.I.)

[^f00032]: 2010 c. 25; paragraph 12 was amended by paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 11 to the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (c. 25)

[^f00033]: 1998 c. 47; section 48 was amended by section 7(2) of the Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Act 2003 (c. 25), section 2 of the Northern Ireland Assembly Members Act 2010 (c. 16) and Article 5(g) of S.I. 2011/978

[^f00034]: The definition of “pensioner member” was amended by paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 5 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)) and Article 11(7) of S.I. 2006/745

[^f00035]: The definition of “public service pension scheme” was inserted by paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 4 to the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 2 (N.I.))

[^f00036]: S.R. 2005 No. 93; regulation 2 was amended by regulation 5(3) of S.R. 2006 No. 65 and regulation 17(3) of S.I. 2019/193

[^f00037]: For example, seeS.R. 2022 No. 300

[^f00038]: 2022 c. 7

[^f00039]: Paragraph 6 was amended by regulation 73(8)(a) of S.R. 2014 No. 204

Editorial notes

Connection according to the connection deadline

Voluntary connection

Connection for new or growing schemes

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