SCHEDULES

C5C4SCHEDULE 29Registered pension schemes: authorised lump sums—supplementary

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Sch. 29 modified by The Taxation of Pension Schemes (Transitional Provisions) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/572), art. 23C (as inserted (1.6.2009) by S.I. 2009/1172, arts. 1, 3 (as amended (with effect in accordance with s. 42(9) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), s. 42(5); and as amended by Taxation of Pensions Act 2014 (c. 30), Sch. 1 para. 72(1) (with Sch. 1 para. 72(2)(b)))

C2C3Part 2Lump sum death benefit rule

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Sch. 29 Pt. 2 applied (with modifications) (6.4.2006) by The Pension Protection Fund (Tax) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/575), regs. 1, 14

Money purchase arrangements

Annuity protection lump sum death benefit

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1

For the purposes of this Part a lump sum death benefit is an annuity protection lump sum death benefit if—

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b

it is paid in respect of a money purchase arrangement, and

c

it is paid in respect of a scheme pension or lifetime annuity to which the member was entitled at the date of the member’s death.

2

But if the amount of a lump sum falling within sub-paragraph (1) exceeds the annuity protection limit, the excess is not an annuity protection lump sum death benefit.

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The annuity protection limit is—

AC-AP-TPLSmath

where—

F1AC is—

  1. a

    in a case where the member became entitled to the pension or annuity before reaching the age of 75, the amount crystallised by reason of the member becoming entitled to the pension or annuity, disregarding paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 32, and

  2. b

    in a case where the member became entitled to the pension or annuity after having reached that age, the amount that would have been so crystallised (disregarding those paragraphs) but for paragraph 2 of that Schedule,

AP is the amount of the pension paid in respect of the period between the member becoming entitled to the pension or annuity and the member’s death, and

TPLS is the total amount of annuity protection lump sum death benefit previously paid in respect of the pension or annuity under this paragraph.