The Pension Protection Fund (Multi-employer Schemes) (Modification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Reconsideration

56.—(1) Article 135 (application for reconsideration) shall be modified in its application to a segregated part to which regulation 45 applies, so that it shall be read as if in paragraph (8) in the definition of “protected benefits quotation” for the words from ““protected benefits quotation”, in relation to a scheme, means” to “from the reconsideration time” there were substituted –

““protected benefits quotation”, in relation to a segregated part of a non-segregated scheme, means a quotation for one or more annuities from one or more insurers, being companies willing to accept payment in respect of the members of the segregated part from the trustees or managers of the scheme, which would provide in respect of each member of the segregated part from the reconsideration time”.

(2) Article 136 (duty to assume responsibility following reconsideration) shall be modified in its application to a segregated part to which regulation 45 applies so that it shall be read as if –

(a) for paragraph (1) there were substituted the following paragraph –

“(1) This Article applies where an application is made in respect of a segregated part of a non-segregated scheme in accordance with Article 135.”;

(b) for paragraph (2) there were substituted the following paragraph –

“(2) The Board must assume responsibility in accordance with this Chapter for a segregated part of a non-segregated scheme if it is satisfied that the value of the assets of the segregated part at the reconsideration time is less than the aggregate of –

(a) the amount quoted in the protected benefits quotation accompanying the application;

(b) a proportion of the amount of the liabilities of the scheme as a whole at that time, as calculated in the Board’s valuation of the segregated part referred to in paragraph (2) of Article 135, which are not liabilities to, or in respect of, members of the scheme;

(c) the estimated costs of winding up the segregated part at that time.”;

(c) after paragraph (3) there were inserted the following paragraph –

“(3A) Where the trustees or managers of a segregated part of a non-segregated scheme receive a copy of a determination notice from the Board under paragraph (3), they must send a copy of that notice as soon as practicable to all the employers in relation to the scheme.”; and

(d) after paragraph (7) there were inserted the following paragraph –

“(7A) Where the trustees or managers of a segregated part of a non-segregated scheme receive a notice from the Board under paragraph (7) together with a copy of the binding notice, they must send a copy of the notice and the binding notice as soon as practicable to all the employers in relation to the scheme.”.