[F1PART 6U.K.NON-SEGREGATED SCHEMES:

Textual Amendments

SCHEMES WITHOUT PROVISION FOR PARTIAL WIND UP ON WITHDRAWAL OF A PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERU.K.

Transfer notice and the pension compensation provisionsU.K.

70.—(1) Section 160 of the Act (transfer notice) shall be modified in its application to a scheme to which regulation 61 applies so that it shall be read as if—

(a)in subsection (1), for the words “where the Board is required to assume responsibility for a scheme”, there were substituted the words “where the Board is required to assume responsibility for a non-segregated scheme”;

(b)after subsection (2), there were inserted the following subsection—

“(2A) Where the trustees or managers of a non-segregated scheme receive a transfer notice from the Board under subsection (2), they must send a copy of that notice as soon as practicable to all the employers in relation to the scheme.”; and

(c)for subsection (6), there were substituted the following subsection—

“(6) The Board must give a copy of the transfer notice given under subsection (2) to—

(a)the Regulator, and

(b)an insolvency practitioner acting in relation to every employer in relation to the scheme in respect of which the transfer notice is given.”.

(2) Schedule 6 to the Act (transfer of property, rights and liabilities to the Board) shall be modified in its application to a scheme to which regulation 61 applies so that it shall be read as if, in paragraph 1, for the words “an occupational pension scheme”, there were substituted the words “a non-segregated multi-employer scheme”.

(3) Schedule 7 to the Act (pension compensation provisions) shall be modified in its application to a scheme to which regulation 61 applies so that it shall be read as if, in paragraph 1, for the words “an eligible scheme”, there were substituted the words “a non-segregated multi-employer scheme which is, for the purposes of Part 2, an eligible scheme”.]