Pensions Act 2004

302 Dissolution of the Pensions Compensation Board U.K.

(1) The Pensions Compensation Board is hereby dissolved.

(2) An order under section 322 appointing the day on which subsection (1) is to come into force may provide—

(a) for all property, rights and liabilities to which the Pensions Compensation Board is entitled or subject immediately before that day to become property, rights and liabilities of the Board, and

(b) for any function of the Pensions Compensation Board falling to be exercised on or after that day, or which fell to be exercised before that day but has not been exercised, to be exercised by the Board.

(3) Information obtained by the Board by virtue of subsection (2) is to be treated for the purposes of sections 197 to 201 and 203 (disclosure of information) as having been obtained by the Board in the exercise of its functions from the person from whom the Pensions Compensation Board obtained it.

(4) Where tax information disclosed to the Pensions Compensation Board is obtained by the Board by virtue of subsection (2), subsection (3) does not apply, and subsections (3) and (4) of section 202 apply as if that information had been disclosed to the Board by virtue of subsection (2) of that section.

For this purpose “tax information” has the same meaning as in that section.

(5) Where the Pensions Compensation Board’s disclosure under section 114(3) of the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26) of information to which subsection (3) applies was subject to any express restriction, the Board’s powers of disclosure under sections 198 to 201 and 203, in relation to that information, are subject to the same restriction.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 302(1) in force at 1.9.2005 by S.I. 2005/1720, art. 2(10)

I2 S. 302(2) in force at 27.5.2005 by S.I. 2005/1436, art. 2(6)

I3 S. 302(3)-(5) in force at 1.9.2005 by S.I. 2005/2447, art. 2(4), Sch. Pt. 1