Hybrid benefits4

1

This regulation applies to hybrid benefits.

2

In this regulation, “hybrid benefit” means a benefit the rate or amount of which is calculated by reference to the greatest, or smallest, of two or more of the following—

a

an average salary benefit,

b

a flat rate benefit,

c

a money purchase benefit, and

d

some other benefit to which paragraph 2 of Schedule 1A applies.

3

Schedule 1A is modified so as to require that—

a

before deciding which benefit is the greatest or smallest, each benefit must be revalued in accordance with whichever of paragraphs 2 to 5 of Schedule 1A applies to it, and

b

the rate or amount of the hybrid benefit must be calculated by reference to the greatest, or smallest, of those benefits as revalued.