Part III Certification of Pension Schemes and Effects on Members’ State Scheme Rights and Duties

Chapter I Certification

General requirements for certification

8 Determination of basis on which scheme is contracted-out.

(1)

A contracting-out certificate shall state whether the scheme is contracted-out by virtue of subsection (2) or (3) of section 5.

(2)

Where a scheme satisfies both of those subsections the employers, in their application for a certificate, shall specify one of those subsections as the subsection by virtue of which they wish the scheme to be contracted-out.

(3)

A scheme which has been contracted-out by virtue of one of those subsections may not become contracted-out by reason of the other except in prescribed circumstances.