(1)Section 93 of the M1Pension Schemes Act 1993 (scope of provisions relating to transfer values) is amended as follows.
(2)For subsection (1)(a) there is substituted—
“(a)to any member of an occupational pension scheme—
(i)whose pensionable service has terminated at least one year before normal pension age, and
(ii)who on the date on which his pensionable service terminated had accrued rights to benefit under the scheme,
except a member of a salary related occupational pension scheme whose pensionable service terminated before 1st January 1986 and in respect of whom prescribed requirements are satisfied”.
(3)After subsection (1) there is inserted—
“(1A)For the purposes of this section and the following provisions of this Chapter, an occupational pension scheme is salary related if—
(a)the scheme is not a money purchase scheme, and
(b)the scheme does not fall within a prescribed class.
(1B)Regulations may—
(a)provide for this Chapter not to apply in relation to a person of a prescribed description, or
(b)apply this Chapter with prescribed modifications to occupational pension schemes—
(i)which are not money purchase schemes, but
(ii)where some of the benefits that may be provided are money purchase benefits.”
Commencement Information
I1S. 152 in force at 6.4.1996 for specified purposes by S.I. 1996/778, art. 2(5)(a), Sch. Pt. V
I2S. 152 in force at 6.4.1997 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 1997/664, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 3
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