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The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

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149.—(1 )F1 The Board must notify the Commissioners of Inland Revenue where, by reason of it assuming responsibility for an eligible scheme in accordance with this Chapter, the trustees or managers of the scheme are discharged from their liability to provide a guaranteed minimum pension (within the meaning of the Pension Schemes Act) to or in respect of a member of the scheme.

(2) Notification under paragraph (1) must be given as soon as reasonably practicable.

(3) In section 43 of the Pension Schemes Act (further provision concerning entitlement to a guaranteed minimum pension for the purposes of section 42), after subsection (7) add—

(8) For the purposes of section 42, a person shall be treated as entitled to a guaranteed minimum pension to which he would have been entitled but for the fact that the trustees or managers were discharged from their liability to provide that pension on the Board of the Pension Protection Fund assuming responsibility for the scheme. .

F1mod. by SR 2005/55

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