The Pension Protection Fund (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007

c

in the case of either a section 143 or section 179 valuation, an amount in respect of the value of any pre-6th April 1997 contract of insurance if—

i

the trustees or managers have taken all reasonable steps to obtain information concerning that contract of insurance (whether by searching the records of the scheme or otherwise); and

ii

the information that they provide concerning that contract of insurance is insufficient, in the opinion of the appropriate person, to conduct a valuation.

SCHEDULEContents of Accounts Audited by the Auditor of the Scheme

Regulation 1(2)

1

An account of the financial additions to, withdrawals from and changes to the value of the fund during the accounting period.

2

1

A statement, as at the end of the accounting period, of the assets at market value, or trustees’ or managers’ estimate thereof where the market value is not readily ascertainable, and liabilities of the scheme, other than liabilities to pay pensions and benefits after the end of the accounting period—

a

giving, in the case of any assets which are stated as an estimate of their market value, the reason why the valuation is an estimate;

b

showing the distribution of the investments and other assets of the scheme between each of the following categories (where none of the investments falls within a particular category, that fact is not required to be stated), namely—

i

insurance policies;

ii

public sector fixed interest investments and separately showing quoted securities and unquoted securities;

iii

other fixed interest investments and separately showing quoted securities and unquoted securities;

iv

index-linked securities and separately showing quoted securities and unquoted securities;

v

equities (including convertible shares) and separately showing quoted equities and unquoted equities;

vi

property (which in this paragraph means any right or interest in freehold or leasehold land or buildings);

vii

unit trusts invested in property;

viii

other unit trusts;

ix

managed funds (other than unit trusts) invested in property;

x

other managed funds (not being unit trusts);

xi

loans (whether or not secured by mortgage);

xii

cash deposits and cash in hand;

xiii

investments and other assets not included in heads (i) to (xii) above; and

c

showing separately, in the case of investments in each category, investments in the United Kingdom and investments outside the United Kingdom, and in the case of cash investments mentioned in heads (vii) to (x) of sub-paragraph (b) investments where the company operating the unit trust or managed fund is, and where it is not, a company registered in the United Kingdom.

2

Where the assets include insurance policies which are specifically allocated to the provision of benefits for, and which provide all the benefits payable under the scheme to, particular members or other persons in respect of particular members or both, those policies must be included in the statement and there must be a note of the existence of such policies but that entry need not include their market value or an estimate.

3

Where the assets—

a

are invested only for the purposes of securing additional money purchase benefits derived from voluntary contributions; and

b

are specifically allocated to the provision of additional benefits for particular members or other persons in respect of particular members (or both),

a note that paragraphs (a) and (b) apply must be included in the statement, but that entry need not include the market value or an estimate of value of those assets.

3

Where any assets or liabilities are denominated in currencies other than sterling, a translation of those assets into sterling and an explanation of the basis on which they have been translated.

4

Particulars of any investment (other than in UK Government securities) in which more than 5 per cent. of the total value of the net assets of the scheme is invested, and if any such investment is an insurance policy, a statement of its main characteristics.

5

Where the scheme has employer-related investments, within the meaning of section 40(2) of the Pensions Act 19958 (restriction on employer-related investments), a statement—

a

as to the percentage of the scheme’s resources invested in such investments at the end of the accounting period; and

b

if that percentage exceeds 5 per cent., as the percentage of the scheme’s resources which are investments to which regulation 13 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations 2005 (restrictions on employer-related investments) applies.

6

In respect of every other amount shown in the accounts other than the amounts referred to in paragraph 7, a statement of the corresponding amount for the scheme year previous to the accounting period, except in a case where regulation 2 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Requirement to obtain Audited Accounts and a Statement from the Auditor) Regulations 19969 (requirement for trustees or managers to obtain documents) is complied with by the trustees or managers of a scheme for the first time.

7

The total amount of the purchases and the total amount of the sales of investments during the accounting period.

8

A statement whether the accounts have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice, the guidelines (“Financial Reports of Pension Schemes”) published by the Pensions Research Accountants Group10 or another organisation approved for this purpose by the Accounting Standards Board11, current at the end of the accounting period and, if not, an indication of where there are any material departures from those guidelines.