Part IOccupational pensions

The compensation provisions

82Applications for payments

1

Compensation may be paid under section 83 only on an application to which section 81 applies made within the qualifying period by a prescribed person.

2

An application under this section must be made in the manner, and give the information, required by the Compensation Board.

3

For the purposes of this section the “qualifying period”, subject to subsection (5), is the period expiring with the period of twelve months mentioned in subsection (4).

4

The period of twelve months referred to in subsection (3) is that beginning with the later of the following times—

a

the insolvency date,

b

when the auditor or actuary of the scheme, or the trustees, knew or ought reasonably to have known that a reduction of value falling within section 81(1)(c) had occurred,

being, in each case, a time after the appointed day.

5

The Compensation Board may extend, or further extend, the qualifying period.