Pension Schemes Act 1993

Contracting-out requirements for schemes providing guaranteed minimum pensions

7 An occupational pension scheme which—

(a) at any time before the coming into operation of the first regulations made under—

(i) paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 32 of the [1975 c. 60.] Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (which made corresponding provision to that made by section 9(2)(a) of this Act), or

(ii) subsection (8) of section 35 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (which made corresponding provision to that made by section 16(4) of this Act),

did not satisfy that paragraph or, as the case may be, that subsection; but

(b) would have satisfied it if those regulations had then been in operation,

shall, for the purpose of determining whether the scheme satisfied that paragraph or, as the case may be, that subsection, be treated as if those regulations had been in operation at that time.

8 Any document the contents of which are in terms corresponding to those of section 35(7) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975, as that subsection stood immediately before the passing of the [1985 c. 53.] Social Security Act 1985 (which corresponded to subsection (2) of section 16 of this Act, but with the substitution for the words from “is terminated before” onwards of the words “is terminated before he attains the scheme’s normal pension age shall be determined for the purposes of section 14(2) without reference to any order that comes into force under section 21 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 after the relevant year in which his service ends”) shall be construed as if its contents were and always had been in terms corresponding to those of section 16(2) of this Act.

9 The requirement of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 that for an occupational pension scheme to be contracted-out in relation to an earner’s employment it must provide requisite benefits shall, except so far as it relates to guaranteed minimum pensions, be treated for the purposes of section 37 of that Act as if it had never existed.

10 (1) Where in the tax year 1989-90 the trustees or managers of an occupational pension scheme made an increase in the rate of pensions currently payable to the members of the scheme who had attained pensionable age or to the widows or widowers of members, they may deduct the amount of the increase from any increase which, but for this sub-paragraph, they would be required to make under section 109 in the tax year 1990-91.

(2) Subsections (1) and (4) of section 110 shall apply to sub-paragraph (1) as they apply to subsections (2) and (3) of that section.