Part 4U.K.Pension schemes etc

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C7Pt. 4 modified (1.7.2008) (N.I.) (with effect in accordance with reg. 1 of the amending Rule) by The Health and Social Care (Pension Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/256), regs. 1, 124(1) (with regs. 134, 258)

C9Pt. 4 applied (21.7.2009) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 35 para. 18

C10Pt. 4 modified (19.7.2011) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 18 para. 14(3)

C11Pt. 4 applied (with modifications) (with application in accordance with Sch. 22 para. 1 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 22 para. 1(2)

C12Pt. 4 modified (17.7.2014) by Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), Sch. 6 para. 1(2)(3)

C13Pt. 4: power to amend conferred (17.12.2014) by Taxation of Pensions Act 2014 (c. 30), s. 4(3)

C14Pt. 4 modified (15.9.2016) by Finance Act 2016 (c. 24), Sch. 4 para. 1

C15Pt. 4 modified (15.9.2016) by Finance Act 2016 (c. 24), Sch. 4 para. 9(2)

Chapter 5U.K.Registered pension schemes: tax charges

Unauthorised payments chargeU.K.

210Surchargeable unauthorised member paymentsU.K.

(1)This section identifies which unauthorised member payments made by a registered pension scheme [F1to or in respect of a person who is or has been a member of] the pension scheme are surchargeable.

(2)If the surcharge threshold is reached before the end of the period of 12 months beginning with a reference date, each unauthorised member payment made [F2to or in respect of the person] in the surcharge period is surchargeable.

(3)The surcharge period is the period—

(a)beginning with the reference date, and

(b)ending with the day on which the surcharge threshold is reached.

(4)The first reference date is the date on which the pension scheme first makes an unauthorised member payment [F3to or in respect of the person].

(5)Each subsequent reference date is the date, after the end of the previous reference period, on which the pension scheme next makes an unauthorised member payment [F4to or in respect of the person].

(6)The previous reference period is the period of 12 months beginning with the previous reference date or, if the surcharge threshold is reached in that period, is the surcharge period ending with the date on which it was reached.

(7)The surcharge threshold is reached if the unauthorised payments percentage reaches 25%.

(8)The unauthorised payments percentage is the aggregate of the percentages of the pension fund used up by each unauthorised member payment made by the pension scheme [F5to or in respect of the person] on or after the reference date.

(9)The percentage of the pension fund used up on the occasion of an unauthorised member payment is—

where—

UMP is the amount of the unauthorised member payment, and

VR is an amount equal to the [F6aggregate of the value of the member's rights under arrangements relating to the member under the pension scheme when the unauthorised payment is made (or, if the unauthorised member payment is made after the member has died or has otherwise ceased to be a member of the pension scheme, at the date when the member died or otherwise ceased to be a member).]

(10)The value of the member’s rights under [F7an arrangement on any] date is the aggregate of—

(a)the value of the member’s crystallised rights under the arrangement on that date, calculated in accordance with section 211, and

(b)the value of the member’s uncrystallised rights under the arrangement on that date, calculated in accordance with section 212.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 210(1) substituted (retrospective to 6.4.2006) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 161(2), Sch. 23 para. 16(2)

F2Words in s. 210(2) substituted (retrospective to 6.4.2006) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 161(2), Sch. 23 para. 16(3)

F3Words in s. 210(4) substituted (retrospective to 6.4.2006) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 161(2), Sch. 23 para. 16(3)

F4Words in s. 210(5) substituted (retrospective to 6.4.2006) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 161(2), Sch. 23 para. 16(3)

F5Words in s. 210(8) substituted (retrospective to 6.4.2006) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 161(2), Sch. 23 para. 16(3)

F6Words in s. 210(9) substituted (retrospective to 6.4.2006) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 161(2), Sch. 23 para. 16(4)

F7Words in s. 210(10) substituted (retrospective to 6.4.2006) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 161(2), Sch. 23 para. 16(5)

Commencement Information

I1Ss. 160-274, 281, Schs. 30-35 in force at 6.4.2006 but any power to make an order or regulations under those provisions may be exercised at any time after Royal Assent, see s. 284