Finance Act 2004

Benefit crystallisation event 3: permitted margin

12 (1) This paragraph applies for the purposes of benefit crystallisation event 3 if the individual became entitled to the pension before 6th April 2006.

(2) The permitted margin is the greater of—

(a) what would be the permitted margin at that time if the individual had become entitled to the pension on or after that date (see paragraph 11), and

(b) the amount by which the annual amount of the pension at the rate at which it was payable on the day on which the individual became entitled to it would be greater if it had been increased for the whole of the period specified in sub-paragraph (3) of that paragraph at the rate of P% per annum.

(3) “P%” is the percentage by which, in accordance with the rules of the pension scheme immediately before 6th April 2006, the annual rate of the pension is to be increased each year.