F1Part IVA Requirements relating to pension credit benefit

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Pt. 4A inserted (11.11.1999 for specified purposes, 1.12.2000 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), ss. 37, 89(5)(a); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. 4

Chapter I Pension credit benefit under occupational schemes

101E Discharge of liability where pension credit or alternative benefits secured by insurance policies or annuity contracts.

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A transaction to which section 19 applies discharges the trustees or managers of a scheme from their liability to provide pension credit benefit or any alternative to pension credit benefit for or in respect of a member of the scheme if and to the extent that—

a

it results in pension credit benefit, or any alternative to pension credit benefit, for or in respect of the member being appropriately secured (within the meaning of that section),

b

the transaction is entered into with the consent of the member or, if the member has died, of the member’s widow or widower F2or surviving civil partner, and

c

such requirements as may be prescribed are met.

2

Regulations may provide that subsection (1)(b) shall not apply in prescribed circumstances.