The Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt) Regulations 2005

Former employers U.K.

Former employers U.K.

9.—(1) In the application of section 75 of the 1995 Act and these Regulations to a scheme which has no active members, references to employers include every person who employed persons in the description of employment to which the scheme relates immediately before the occurrence of the event after which the scheme ceased to have any active members.

(2) In the application of section 75 of the 1995 Act and these Regulations to a scheme, references to employers include–

(a) any pre-April 1997 participator (see paragraph (7)); and

(b) any person who has ceased on or after 6th April 1997 and before the applicable time to be a person employing persons in the description of employment to which the scheme relates, unless—

(i) when he so ceased the scheme was not being wound up and continued to have active members; and

(ii) [F1 condition A, B, BB], C or D is met.

(3) Condition A is that no debt was treated as becoming due from him under section 75(2) or (4) of the 1995 Act (or, if he so ceased before 6th April 2005, under section 75(1) of that Act) by virtue of his so ceasing.

(4) Condition B is that such a debt was treated as becoming due from him and has been paid before the applicable time.

[F2 (4A) Condition BB is that such a debt was treated as becoming due from him, the modification in regulation 7(3) applied, and the amount treated as becoming due from him under regulation 7(3)(a) has been paid before the applicable time.]

(5) Condition C is that such a debt was treated as becoming due from him and has not been so paid solely because he was not notified of the debt, and of the amount of it, sufficiently in advance of the applicable time for it to be paid before that time.

(6) Condition D is that such a debt was treated as becoming due from him but at the applicable time it is excluded from the value of the assets of the scheme because it is unlikely to be recovered without disproportionate cost or within a reasonable time.

(7) In this regulation “pre-April 1997 participator” means a person who immediately before 6th April 2005 was regarded as an employer for the purposes of the 1996 Regulations by virtue of regulation 6 of those Regulations (ceasing to participate: transitional provision).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 9(2)(b)(ii) substituted (2.9.2005) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2224), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)

F2 Reg. 9(4A) inserted (2.9.2005) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2224), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(b)