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Regulation 13 Investments to which restrictions do not apply

(1)

Regulation 12(1) shall not restrict or prohibit investments to which this regulation applies.

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(5)

This regulation applies to sums due from the employer to the trustees by virtue of a provision in an order under section 7 of the 1995 Act M1 (appointment of trustees) such as is permitted by section 8(1) of that Act M2 (orders appointing trustees may provide that certain sums are to be treated as a debt due from the employer to the trustees).

(6)

This regulation applies to sums which fall or fell to be treated as debts due from the employer to the trustees or managers by virtue of—

(a)

section 75(2) and (4) of the 1995 Act M3 (deficiencies in the assets);

(b)

section 88(2) of the 1995 Act M4 (schedules of payments to money purchase schemes: supplementary – amounts not paid in accordance with the payment schedule); F4...

(c)

section 228(3) of the 2004 Act (failure to make payments)F5;

(d)

section 59(2) of the 1995 Act (determination of contributions: supplementary); or

(e)

section 60(5) of the 1995 Act (serious underprovision),

and to sums which would fall to be so treated by virtue of any of those sections were they not already debts due from the employer to the trustees or managers.

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(10)

Subject to paragraph (11), where the disposal of assets on the winding up of a scheme would otherwise result in a contravention of these Regulations F9and where it would not be reasonably practicable to otherwise dispose of them, any employer-related investments held before the commencement of the winding up may be retained while the scheme is being wound up, but there shall be no new investment in employer-related investments while the resources retained under this paragraph exceed five per cent. of the current market value of the resources of the scheme.

(11)

Paragraph (10) does not apply to permit the retention of—

(a)

employer-related investments which were, prior to the commencement of the winding up, held in contravention of these Regulations or of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations 1996 M5; or

(b)

employer-related loans to which regulation 14(2)(c) applies.

(12)

This regulation applies to a loan to the employer or a company associated with the employer, if the scheme has fewer than 100 members, and—

(a)

the scheme provides benefits for directors of a company which is the employer, or such directors and others;

(b)

there is a qualifying insurance policy taken out under the scheme which is specifically allocated to the provision of benefits under the scheme and the directors' interests under which are used as security for the loan;

(c)

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs' requirements concerning the loan have been satisfied;

(d)

the directors agreeing to the interests under the policy concerned being used as security for the loan have so agreed in writing, and

(e)

the loan was made and the security given before 9th August 1999.

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 13(2) omitted (23.9.2010) by virtue of Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/615), regs. 1(3)(b), 19(3)(a)

F2

Reg. 13(3) omitted (23.9.2010) by virtue of Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/615), regs. 1(3)(b), 19(3)(c)

F3

Reg. 13(4) omitted (23.9.2010) by virtue of Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/615), regs. 1(3)(b), 19(3)(c)

F4

Word in reg. 13(6)(b) omitted (6.4.2006) by virtue of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/778), regs. 1(1)(b), 9(3)(a)(i)

F5

Reg. 13(6)(d)(e) and word substituted for word in reg. 13(6)(c) (6.4.2006) by Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/778), regs. 1(1)(b), 9(3)(a)(ii)

F6

Reg. 13(7) omitted (23.9.2010) by virtue of Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2161), regs. 1, 2(2)

F7

Reg. 13(8) omitted (23.9.2010) by virtue of Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/615), regs. 1(3)(b), 19(3)(c)

F8

Reg. 13(9) omitted (23.9.2010) by virtue of Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/615), regs. 1(3)(b), 19(3)(c)

F9

Words in reg. 13(10) inserted (23.9.2010) by Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/615), regs. 1(3)(b), 19(3)(d)

F10

Reg. 13(13) omitted (23.9.2010) by virtue of Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/615), regs. 1(3)(b), 19(3)(e)

Marginal citations

M1

Section 7 was amended by section 35(1) of the 2004 Act.

M2

Section 8 was substituted by section 35(2) of the 2004 Act.

M3

Section 75 was amended by section 271 of the 2004 Act.

M4

Section 88 was amended by paragraph 65 of Schedule 12 to the 2004 Act.

M5

S.I. 1996/3127; those Regulations were amended by the other instruments referred to in the Schedule to these Regulations.