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Member
Speaking in the House of Commons on 3 December 2025
Debate
Pension Schemes BillContribution
Clause 104(8) secures that a purported alteration of an NI scheme is outside the scope of remediation under clauses 105 and 106 if its validity is or has been in issue in legal proceedings in circumstances specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (c). The amendment is intended to clarify which legal proceedings are to count for this purpose, namely proceedings for the determination of a dispute before a court in the United Kingdom, the parties to which are or include both the trustees or managers of the scheme in question and beneficiaries under the scheme or a person representing beneficiaries. The terms used in the new subsection (9) are intended to have their usual meaning in the law of Northern Ireland domestic law, so that proceedings before a tribunal or on a complaint to an ombudsman would not count as “legal proceedings”.
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