PART 3

The Pensions Regulator

Provision of false or misleading information

Provision of false or misleading information to Regulator
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After section 80 of the Pensions Act 2004 (offences of providing false or misleading information) insert—

Financial penalty for providing false or misleading information to Regulator
80A
1
Section 88A (financial penalties) applies to a person who has knowingly or recklessly provided the Regulator with information which is false or misleading in a material particular, if the information was provided to the Regulator in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (2)(a), (b) or (c).
2
The circumstances referred to in subsection (1) are—
a
that the information was provided in purported compliance with a requirement under—
i
section 62 (the register: duties of trustees or managers),
ii
section 64 (duty of trustees or managers to provide scheme return),
iii
section 69 (duty to notify the Regulator of certain events),
iv
section 69A (duty to give notices and statements to the Regulator in respect of certain events),
v
section 72 (provision of information),
vi
section 72A (interviews),
vii
section 75 (inspection of premises: powers of inspectors), or
viii
regulations under section 11 of the Pensions Act 2008 (information about employers’ duties to be given to the Regulator);
b
that the information was provided in applying for registration of a pension scheme under section 2 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (registration of stakeholder pension schemes);
c
that the information was provided otherwise than as mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) but in circumstances in which the person providing the information intends, or could reasonably be expected to know, that it would be used by the Regulator for the purpose of exercising its functions under—
i
the Pensions Act 1995,
ii
this Act,
iii
the Pensions Act 2008,
iv
Schedule 18 to the Pensions Act 2014,
v
the Pension Schemes Act 2017, or
vi
Part 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 2021.