Starting Point Employment Law Guide: Jersey Pensions

Carey Olsen Starting Point Guides are intended as a general introduction and guide to different aspects of Jersey law.

They contain many of the most important issues that we come across but are very much the edited highlights of those issues. If you would like legal advice in relation to any specific circumstances, please contact us.

Jersey

Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands and is a British Crown dependency.

It has its own financial, legal and judicial systems and its own parliament. It is not part of the UK or the European Union.

Is there specific legislation in Jersey relating to pensions?

Jersey has no specific pension legislation. However, Jersey pensions and pension schemes have their own local tax approval regime which is contained in Part 19 of the Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961, as amended (the "Jer sey Income Tax Law").