Section 9: Financial sustainability requirement: business plan
Section 9 provides that a Master Trust must have a business plan prepared by the scheme strategist (subsection (1)) and approved by the scheme funder, any other scheme strategist and the trustees (subsection (5)). Subsection (2) provides a power for the Department to make regulations setting out information to be included, and other requirements, in relation to the business plan. The business plan must be reviewed by the scheme strategist at least annually and revised if appropriate, and must be revised at any time in the event of a significant change to the information set out in the plan.
Subsection (6) sets out that the business plan, and supporting documentation, must be provided to the Pensions Regulator by the scheme strategist or trustees when the scheme applies for authorisation, and within three months of the plan being revised or on request by the Pensions Regulator.
Subsections (7) and (8) provide that the first regulations made under this section are subject to the confirmatory procedure and that any subsequent regulations are subject to negative resolution.
