The Financial Assistance Scheme (Provision of Information and Administration of Payments) Regulations 2005

Method of providing information

5.—(1) Where, under these Regulations, any information is to be provided to any person, that information shall be provided in writing.

(2) Where, under these Regulations—

(a) any information is to be provided to the scheme manager by any beneficiary or potential beneficiary; and

(b) there is an appointed representative in relation to that beneficiary or potential beneficiary,

that information shall be provided by or to his appointed representative.

(3) Any document sent, or notification given, by an appropriate person to the scheme manager under regulation 3(1) or (3) and Schedule 1 shall include—

(a) the names of the persons sending the document or giving the notification;

(b) the name of the scheme to which the document or notification relates; and

(c) the pension scheme registration number which is allocated to that scheme in the register.

(4) Any document sent, or notification given, to the scheme manager by any beneficiary or potential beneficiary under regulation 4(1) and Schedule 2, or by the personal representative of a such a person under regulation 4(2), shall include, in relation to that person—

(a) the name, address, date of birth and national insurance number of that person;

(b) where the beneficiary or potential beneficiary concerned is, or purports to be, a survivor, the name and date of birth of the qualifying member from whom that person has accrued pension rights;

(c) the name of the employer in relation to the scheme in which that qualifying member’s pension rights accrued; and

(d) the address or location of a place of business of that employer.