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F1Pt. 4A inserted (11.11.1999 for specified purposes, 1.12.2000 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), ss. 37, 89(5)(a); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. 4
(1)This Chapter applies to any occupational pension scheme whose resources are derived in whole or part from—
(a)payments to which subsection (2) applies made or to be made by one or more employers of earners to whom the scheme applies, or
(b)such other payments by the earner or his employer, or both, as may be prescribed for different categories of scheme.
(2)This subsection applies to payments—
(a)under an actual or contingent legal obligation, or
(b)in the exercise of a power conferred, or the discharge of a duty imposed, on a Minister of the Crown, government department or any other person, being a power or duty which extends to the disbursement or allocation of public money.
In this Chapter—
“scheme” means an occupational pension scheme to which this Chapter applies;
“pension credit rights” means rights to future benefits under a scheme which are attributable (directly or indirectly) to a pension credit;
“pension credit benefit”, in relation to a scheme, means the benefits payable under the scheme to or in respect of a person by virtue of rights under the scheme attributable (directly or indirectly) to a pension credit;
“normal benefit age”, in relation to a scheme, means the earliest age at which a person who has pension credit rights under the scheme is entitled to receive a pension by virtue of those rights (disregarding any scheme rule making special provision as to early payment of pension on grounds of ill-health or otherwise).
(1)Normal benefit age under a scheme must be between 60 and 65.
(2)A scheme must not provide for payment of pension credit benefit in the form of a lump sum at any time before normal benefit age, except in such circumstances as may be prescribed.
(1)Subject to subsection (2) and section 101E, a person’s pension credit benefit under a scheme must be—
(a)payable directly out of the resources of the scheme, or
(b)assured to him by such means as may be prescribed.
(2)Subject to subsections (3) and (4), a scheme may, instead of providing a person’s pension credit benefit, provide—
(a)for his pension credit rights under the scheme to be transferred to another occupational pension scheme or a personal pension scheme with a view to acquiring rights for him under the rules of the scheme, or
(b)for such alternatives to pension credit benefit as may be prescribed.
(3)The option conferred by subsection (2)(a) is additional to any obligation imposed by Chapter II of this Part.
(4)The alternatives specified in subsection (2)(a) and (b) may only be by way of complete or partial substitute for pension credit benefit—
(a)if the person entitled to the benefit consents, or
(b)in such other cases as may be prescribed.
(1)A transaction to which section 19 applies discharges the trustees or managers of a scheme from their liability to provide pension credit benefit or any alternative to pension credit benefit for or in respect of a member of the scheme if and to the extent that—
(a)it results in pension credit benefit, or any alternative to pension credit benefit, for or in respect of the member being appropriately secured (within the meaning of that section),
(b)the transaction is entered into with the consent of the member or, if the member has died, of the member’s widow or widower [F2or surviving civil partner], and
(c)such requirements as may be prescribed are met.
(2)Regulations may provide that subsection (1)(b) shall not apply in prescribed circumstances.]
Textual Amendments
F2Words in s. 101E(1)(b) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(b), Sch. 27 para. 148; S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)
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