Finance Act 2004

[F1 172D Limit on increase in benefits U.K.

(1) This section applies where, at any time during any pension input period in respect of a relevant arrangement relating to a member of an occupational pension scheme that is a registered pension scheme, the member and—

(a) a sponsoring employer, or

(b) a person connected with a sponsoring employer.

are connected persons.

(2) If—

(a) the pension input amount for the pension input period in respect of the relevant arrangement, exceeds

(b) the notional unconnected person input amount for the pension input period in respect of the relevant arrangement,

the pension scheme is to be treated as making an unauthorised payment to the member (or to the member's personal representatives) of an amount equal to the excess.

(3) A relevant arrangement is an arrangement under the pension scheme that is—

(a) a defined benefits arrangement,

(b) a cash balance arrangement, or

(c) a hybrid arrangement under which the benefits that may be provided to or in respect of the member are, or include, defined benefits or cash balance benefits.

(4) The pension input amount for a pension input period in respect of the relevant arrangement is to be determined in accordance with—

(a) sections 230 to 232 if the relevant arrangement is a cash balance arrangement,

(b) sections 234 to 236 if it is a defined benefits arrangement, and

(c) section 237 if it is a hybrid arrangement,

treating references in those sections to the individual as to the member and treating section 237 as if the references to input amount B were omitted.

(5) The notional unconnected person input amount for the pension input period in respect of the relevant arrangement is what the pension input amount, as so determined, would have been if the member were connected with—

(a) a sponsoring employer, or

(b) a person connected with a sponsoring employer,

at no time during the pension input period.

(6) Section 839 of ICTA (connected persons) applies for the purposes of this section.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 172A-172D inserted (6.4.2006) by Finance Act 2005 (c. 7), Sch. 10 paras. 38, 64(1)