Regulation 18 Methods of providing a relevant scheme

Any duty imposed by these Regulations to provide a relevant scheme for a protected person may be satisfied by the employer as soon as reasonably practicable–

(a)

participating in the North Scheme or, as the case may be, the South Scheme; or

(b)

(i)

amending or procuring the amendment of an existing retirement benefits scheme to the extent (if any) necessary to cause that scheme to be a relevant scheme; or

(ii)

establishing a new relevant scheme;

and in either case being or becoming a participant in that scheme;

and, in any such case enabling the protected person to participate in that scheme with effect, whether actual or deemed, from the date upon which the duty to provide that scheme arose.