The Pension Protection Fund (Multi-employer Schemes) (Modification) Regulations 2005

Protected liabilities

19.  Section 131 of the Act (protected liabilities) shall be modified in its application to a multi-employer section of a segregated scheme to which paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 14 applies so that it shall be read as if, for subsection (1), there were substituted the following subsection—

“(1) For the purposes of this Chapter the protected liabilities, in relation to a multi-employer section of a segregated scheme which is, for the purposes of this Part, an eligible scheme, at a particular time (“the relevant time”) are—

(a) the cost of securing benefits for and in respect of members of the section which correspond to the compensation which would be payable, in relation to the section, in accordance with the pension compensation provisions (see section 162) if the Board assumed responsibility for the section in accordance with this Chapter,

(b) a portion of the liabilities of the scheme as a whole as calculated in the Board’s valuation of the relevant section of the scheme under section 143, which are not liabilities to, or in respect of, members,

(c) the estimated cost of winding up the section.”.