PART 4Provision about divorce and dissolution arrangements

CHAPTER 1Pension credit and pension debit members

SECTION 2Pension sharing orders: information provided before 1st October 2023

Information provided before 1st October 2023: recalculating D’s reduction of benefit I121

1

This regulation applies where D’s remediable relevant benefits have been reduced by an initial reduction amount.

2

The scheme manager must determine the alternative reduction amount or, where the relevant pension sharing relates to mixed service, the alternative reduction amounts in relation to D’s remediable relevant benefits—

a

as soon as reasonably practicable after 30th September 2023, and

b

having consulted the scheme actuary.

3

Where the relevant pension sharing order does not relate to mixed service, the “alternative reduction amount” is such amount as the scheme manager considers appropriate having regard to—

a

the cash equivalent of the remediable relevant benefits on the valuation day as if they had been secured in the alternative scheme,

b

the percentage value or the amount to be transferred specified in the relevant pension sharing order, and

c

the provisions of Articles 26 and 28 of WRP(NI)O 1999.

4

Where the pension sharing order relates to mixed service, the “alternative reduction amounts” are such amounts as the scheme manager considers appropriate having regard to—

a

the cash equivalent of the remediable relevant benefits on the valuation day as if they had all been secured in—

i

the PCSPS(NI), and separately

ii

alpha, and

b

the matters mentioned in paragraph (3)(b) and (c).