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Regulation 7 Ineligibility to act as actuary or auditorC1

For the purposes of section 27(3) of the 1995 Act (ineligibility of trustees and connected and associated persons to act as an auditor or actuary of the scheme: exceptions for persons of a prescribed class or description) the prescribed class or description is—

(a)

any person who is a director, partner or employee of a firm which provides, amongst other services, actuarial services and who would be ineligible under section 27(1) of the 1995 Act to be the actuary merely because another director, partner or employee of that firm is a trustee of the scheme;

(b)

any person—

(i)

who is a director, partner or employee of a firm which provides, amongst other services, actuarial services; and

(ii)

who is not a director of the company which is a trustee of the scheme,

and who would be ineligible under section 27(1) of the 1995 Act to be the actuary merely because he is an associate of the company which is the trustee of the scheme by virtue of section 435(4), (6) and (7) of the Insolvency Act 1986 M1;

(c)

any person who would be ineligible under section 27(1) of the 1995 Act to act as the auditor or the actuary merely because he falls within the description of associate as specified in F1section 435(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986; and”;.

F2(d)

in the case where a person is an associate of any person with whom he is in partnership, the husbandF3, wife or civil partner or a relative of any individual with whom he is in partnership.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 7(c) substituted (6.4.1997) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Reference Scheme and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/819), regs. 1(1), 5(b)(i)

F2

Reg. 7(d) inserted (6.4.1997) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Reference Scheme and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/819), regs. 1(1), 5(b)(ii)

F3

Words in reg. 7(d) substituted (13.3.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/107), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 19

Marginal citations

M1

1986 c.45.

Modifications

C1

Regs. 7-11 applied (1.10.2000) by The Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1403), regs. 1(2), 32, Sch. 2