The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Bankruptcy) Regulations 2002

Time for compliance with request for information

19.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, where a request for information has been made to the responsible person by—

(a) the permanent trustee, judicial factor or the debtor in connection with the making of an application for an exclusion order;

(b) the debtor for, or in connection with, the making of a qualifying agreement referred to in regulation 15 above; or

(c) the permanent trustee—

(i) pursuant to section 36C(1) of the 1985 Act (which enables the permanent trustee to request the responsible person to provide information which he may reasonably need for the making of an application for a restoration order) and relating to the cash equivalent of a debtor’s rights or excluded rights,

(ii) pursuant to section 36F(1) of the 1985 Act (which enables the transferor’s permanent trustee to request the responsible person to provide information which he may reasonably need for the making of an application under sections 34 to 36 of the 1985 Act) and relating to the cash equivalent of a transferee’s rights under a pension arrangement referred to in regulation 18(1) above,

he shall comply with that request within a period of nine weeks beginning with the day on which it is received.

(2) In the case of a request for information falling within sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) above, the court may, either before or after it has expired and on cause shown, extend the period referred to in that paragraph.