Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act 2024

Amendment of Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017

119. The Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017 is amended—

(a) in section 2(1)—

(i) by the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘automatic enrolment retirement savings system’ means the retirement savings system established under the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act 2024;”,

(ii) in the definition of “member”—

(I) in paragraph (a)—

(A) by the insertion of “other than the automatic enrolment retirement savings system,” after “a scheme,”, and

(B) by the substitution of “State,” for “State, and”,

and

(II) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a):

“(aa) in relation to the automatic enrolment retirement savings system, a participant within the meaning of section 2 of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act 2024, and”,

(iii) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “pension provider”:

“ ‘pension provider’ means—

(a) in relation to a scheme, other than the automatic enrolment retirement savings system, any of the following:

(i) any employer who adheres to the scheme;

(ii) any person or undertaking that provides services to the scheme as a trustee, administrator, registered administrator for the purposes of Part VIA of the Act of 1990, consultant or advisor, investment manager, custodian, paying agent, insurer or actuary;

(iii) any person to whom the implementation or interpretation of the rules of the scheme is entrusted;

(iv) any other person of a class specified in regulations made by the Minister under section 4,

and

(b) in relation to the automatic enrolment retirement savings system, An tÚdarás Náisiúnta um Uathrollú Coigiltis Scoir;”,

and

(iv) in the definition of “scheme”, by the substitution of “, a trust RAC or the automatic enrolment retirement savings system” for “or a trust RAC”,

and

(b) in section 4(2), by the substitution, in subparagraph (c)(ii), of “subparagraph (a)(iv)” for “paragraph (d)”.