SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 16U.K.Benefits under pension schemes

Part 3U.K.Commencement and transitional provision

Current alternatively secured pension year to become drawdown pension yearU.K.

100(1)This paragraph applies in the case of a person who, immediately before 6 April 2011, was entitled to dependants' alternatively secured pension.U.K.

(2)Where the last alternatively secured pension year began on or after 7 April 2010, the reference in paragraph 23(1)(a) of Schedule 28 to FA 2004 (drawdown pension year) to the day on which the dependant first becomes entitled to drawdown pension is to be read as a reference to the day on which that alternatively secured pension year began.

(3)Accordingly, any alternatively secured pension year which began on or after 7 April 2010 is to be regarded, on and after 6 April 2011, as a drawdown pension year.

(4)For the purposes of pension death benefit rule 4 in section 167 of FA 2004, the amount which, immediately before 6 April 2011, was the basis amount for that alternatively secured pension year by virtue of paragraph 27 of Schedule 28 to FA 2004 continues, on and after that date, to be the basis amount for that year.

(5)In this paragraph “the last alternatively secured pension year” means the alternatively secured pension year in which 5 April 2011 fell.