The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) Regulations 1996

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Citation, commencement and interpretationE+W+S

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 6th April 1997.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the 1993 Act" means the Pension Schemes Act 1993;

“the 1995 Act" means the Pensions Act 1995;

[F1 “the 2004 Act” means the Pensions Act 2004; ]

[F2“actuary” means—

(a)

the actuary mentioned in section 47(1)(b) of the 1995 Act (professional advisers); or

(b)

in relation to a scheme to which that section does not apply—

(i)

[F3a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries; or]

(iii)

a person with other actuarial qualifications who is approved, at the request of the trustees of the scheme in question, by the Secretary of State as being a proper person to act for the purposes of these Regulations in connection with that scheme;]

“appropriate date" has the meaning given to that expression in section 97(3A) of the 1993 Act M1;

“base rate" has the meaning given to that expression in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations [F41997];

[F5“cash balance benefit” has the meaning given [F6to that expression in section 75 of the Pension Schemes Act 2015];]

F7...

“cash equivalent" means a cash equivalent [F8mentioned in section 94(1) or (2)] of the 1993 Act M2;

[F9“categories of benefits” refers to the categories listed in paragraphs (a) to (c) of section 93(6) of the 1993 Act;]

[F2“discount rates” means the interest rates used to discount future payments of benefit for the purposes of placing a current value on them;]

[F10“effective date” means the date as at which the assets and liabilities are valued for the purposes of the insufficiency report;]

[F11“final salary”, in relation to a member to or in respect of whom benefits under a pension scheme are payable, means the member’s pensionable earnings, or highest, average or representative pensionable earnings, in a specified period ending at, or defined by reference to, the time when the member’s pensionable service in relation to that scheme ends;]

“guarantee date" has the meaning given to that expression in [F12section 93A(4)] of the 1993 Act;

[F2“initial cash equivalent” means the amount calculated in accordance with regulation 7(1)(a);]

[F2“insufficiency report” means the actuary’s last relevant report before the guarantee date prepared in accordance with Schedule 1B (insufficiency reports);]

[F2“insufficiency report liabilities” has the meaning given in paragraph 7 of Schedule 1B;]

[F2“insurance policy” means an insurance policy which is a contract on human life or a contract of annuity on human life, but excluding a contract which is linked to investment funds;]

[F13“member” has the meaning given in section 124(1) of the 1995 Act (interpretation);]

[F14“pensionable earnings”, in relation to a member of a pension scheme, means earnings by reference to which benefits under the scheme are calculated;]

F15...

F16...

[F2“salary related benefits” means benefits that are not money purchase benefits;]

[F17“salary related scheme" has the meaning given in regulation 1A;]

“scheme", except in the expressions “personal pension scheme" and “receiving scheme", means occupational pension scheme;

F7...

“section 9(2B) rights" has the meaning given to that expression in the Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations 1996 M3;

[F2“statement of entitlement” has the meaning given in [F18section 93A(3) of the 1993 Act (right to statement of entitlement: benefits other than money purchase)];]

“trustees", in relation to a scheme which is not set up or established under a trust, means the managers of the scheme M4

and other expressions have the same meaning as in the 1993 Act.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (30.12.2005) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Scheme Funding) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3377), regs. 1, 20(1), Sch. 3 paras. 5(2)

F2 Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (E.W.S.) (1.10.2008) by Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1050), regs. 1(1), 2(a)

F3 Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (6.4.2012) by The Pensions (Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and Consultation by Employers - Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/692), regs. 1(2), 5

F4Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.4.1998) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1613), regs. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 61 (with regs. 1(3), 20, Sch. 4)

F5 Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (24.7.2014) by The Pensions Act 2011 (Transitional, Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1711), regs. 1(1), 32(2)(a) (with regs. 6, 41, 44(1), 47(1), 69(2), 72(1), 76(1)); coming into force immediately after s. 29 of 2011 c 19 - see S.I. 2014/1683, art. 2