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

Protected liabilities and assessment period

50.—(1) Article 115 (protected liabilities) shall be modified in its application to a segregated part to which regulation 45 applies so that it shall be read as if for paragraph (1) there were substituted the following paragraph –

“(1) Except as otherwise provided, for the purposes of this Chapter the protected liabilities, in relation to a segregated part of a non-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 segregated part which correspond to the compensation which would be payable, in relation to members of that part in accordance with the pension compensation provisions (see Article 146) if the Board assumed responsibility for the segregated part in accordance with this Chapter,

(b) a proportion of the liabilities of the scheme as a whole, as calculated in the Board’s valuation under Article 127, which are not liabilities to, or in respect of, members,

(c) the estimated cost of winding up the segregated part.”.

(2) Article 116 (assessment periods) shall be modified in its application to a segregated part to which regulation 45 applies so that it shall be read as if in paragraph (2) after “an assessment period” there were inserted “in relation to a segregated part of a non-segregated scheme”.