Pensions Authority confirms termination of eight registered administrators from 19 October

The Pensions Authority has confirmed the termination of registration of eight registered administrators, every one of them at the administrator’s own request and all with effect from the same date, 19 October 2026. The confirmations appear in Iris Oifigiúil No. 90 of 10 November 2026, published by Authority, in a consecutive run of notices numbered [G-5A] to [G-5I] and issued under the Pensions Act 1990, as amended. None of the eight firms remains a registered administrator as of the stated effective date.

The eight administrators removed from the register

The notices follow a single template. Each carries the heading “Notice of termination of registration upon request for certain registered administrators”, records that the administrator concerned “has expressly requested the termination of registration”, gives a one-line reason — “request to terminate” — and closes with the Authority’s confirmation that termination “is granted for the above-named registered administrator with effect from 19 October 2026”.

• Goodbody Pensioneer Trustees Limited — RA131
• Aviva Life & Pensions Ireland DAC — RA57
• Calor Teoranta — RA65
• Reade Pensions & Financial Services Limited — RA98
• MacCourt Trustees Ltd — RA135
• MacDonald Financial Consultants Limited — RA206
• AIB Wealth Pensioneer Trustee Ltd — RA243
• Sonas Trustees Asset Management Limited — RA262

The register numbers run from RA57 to RA262 and are the only identifier supplied for each firm; the notices carry no addresses, no named officers and no list of the schemes served. The group spans life-assurer vehicles, stand-alone trustee companies and general financial consultancy practices, including one firm registered in an Irish-language form.

Legal basis and issuing body

All eight entries invoke section 64H(1)(a) of the Pensions Act 1990, as amended, the provision under which an administrator’s own application to leave the register is processed and notified. The notices are issued in the name of the Pensions Authority, Verschoyle House, 28-30 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, with the regulator’s website (www.pensionsauthority.ie) and telephone line (01 6131900) given as contact points on each page.

They sit in section I of the issue alongside statutory instruments and company-law notices, and each is separately numbered, meaning the eight removals are published as eight individual determinations rather than as a single collective decision. The wording is identical in all eight, and the effective date — 19 October 2026 — is common to all of them, three weeks before the notices appeared in print.

What the notices do not record

• No occupational pension scheme, employer or member cohort is named in any of the eight notices.
• No ground other than “request to terminate” is given in any case.
• No successor administrator, transfer of engagements or winding-up arrangement is described.
• No reference is made to the size of the schemes administered by the eight firms.

The gazette therefore establishes the fact and the date of each removal, but not its consequences for individual schemes. Any information on the transfer of a scheme’s administration to another registered administrator would have to come from the firms themselves or from the Authority’s register, not from this issue.

Why it matters

Administrators are the regulated entities through which occupational pension schemes are run, and registration is the condition on which they may act. For employers, trustees and members, the operative fact is the date: the terminations bite from 19 October 2026, so any scheme documentation, trustee minute or member communication that still names one of the eight firms as administrator is out of step with the register as published on 10 November 2026. The scale of the batch — eight firms in one issue, several of them long-established names in the Irish market — makes this an unusually concentrated episode of consolidation in the sector, and one that trustees are entitled to see recorded in the official gazette.

Source: Iris Oifigiúil, No. 90, 10 November 2026, section I (official reference: notices [G-5A] to [G-5I]).