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

Protected liabilities and assessment periods

6.—(1) Article 115 (protected liabilities) shall be modified in its application to a section of a segregated scheme to which regulation 2 applies so that it shall be read as if for paragraph (1) there were substituted the following paragraph –

“(1) For the purposes of this Chapter the protected liabilities, in relation to a section of a segregated scheme which is, for the purposes of this Part, an eligible scheme, at a particular time (“the relevant time”), are –

(a) the cost of securing benefits for and in respect of members of the section which correspond to the compensation which would be payable, in relation to the section, in accordance with the pension compensation provisions (see Article 146) if the Board assumed responsibility for the section in accordance with this Chapter,

(b) a proportion of the liabilities of the scheme as a whole as calculated in the Board’s valuation of the relevant section of the scheme under Article 127 which are not liabilities to, or in respect of, members,

(c) the estimated cost of winding up the section.”.

(2) Article 116 (assessment periods) shall be modified in its application to a section of a segregated scheme to which regulation 2 applies so that it shall be read as if in paragraphs (2) and (4) after “an assessment period” there were inserted “in relation to a section of a segregated scheme”.