Department of Finance and Personnel

Notice is hereby given that the Lord Chancellor, in exercise of powers conferred on him by paragraphs 14(2), 22c, 23 and 50(3) of Schedule 15, and paragraph 14(4) of Schedule 17 to, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 has made the following Regulations:-

The Dissolution etc. (Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

These Regulations make provision relating to orders made under the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33), including those made after proceedings overseas, for ancillary relief in proceedings for dissolution, separation or nullity of civil partnership which relate to the pension rights of a party to the civil partnership.

The Regulations provide in particular for:

(a)	the valuation of pension rights by the court;
(b)	notices of change of circumstances to be provided by the person responsible for the pension arrangement to the civil partner without pension rights, or by that civil partner to the person responsible for the pension arrangement; and
(c)	the stay period during which pension sharing orders cannot take effect.

These Regulations shall come into operation on 5 December 2005 .

Copies of the Order – Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland 2005 No.484 – may be obtained from The Stationery Office, 16 Arthur Street, BELFAST, BT1 4GD.