PART VINON-SEGREGATED SCHEMES: SCHEMES WITHOUT PROVISION FOR PARTIAL WIND UP ON WITHDRAWAL OF A PARTICIPATING EMPLOYER

Application and effect

61.—(1) This paragraph applies to a multi-employer scheme which is not divided into two or more sections (“non-segregated scheme”) the rules of which do not provide for the partial winding up of the scheme when an employer in relation to the scheme ceases to participate in the scheme in circumstances where –

(a)an insolvency event occurs in relation to more than one of the employers in relation to the scheme at a time when those employers are the only employers in relation to the scheme; or

(b)the trustees or managers of the scheme become aware that more than one of the employers in relation to the scheme are unlikely to continue as a going concern and meet the requirements prescribed under Article 113(1)(b) (applications and notifications for the purposes of Article 112) at a time when those employers are the only employers in relation to the scheme.

(2) This paragraph applies to a non-segregated scheme the rules of which do not provide for the partial winding up of the scheme when an employer in relation to the scheme ceases to participate in the scheme in circumstances where –

(a)an insolvency event occurs in relation to one or more of the employers in relation to the scheme at a time when an insolvency event has occurred in relation to all other employers in relation to the scheme and, where applicable, an insolvency practitioner is still required by law to be appointed to act in relation to each of those employers; or

(b)one or more of the employers in relation to the scheme is unlikely to continue as a going concern and meets the requirements prescribed under Article 113(1)(b) (applications and notifications for the purposes of Article 112) at a time when an insolvency event has occurred in relation to all other employers in relation to the scheme and, where applicable, an insolvency practitioner is still required by law to be appointed to act in relation to each of those employers.