{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-entry-rules-regulations-2005/regulation-5A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-entry-rules-regulations-2005/regulation-5A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/590",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Protection Fund (Entry Rules) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-entry-rules-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5A",
  "heading": "European insolvency event",
  "text": "(1) An insolvency event occurs in relation to an employer on the fifth anniversary of the date that the insolvency proceedings mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) were commenced.\n(2) The insolvency proceedings are proceedings which—\n(a) on 20th July 2014—\n(i) relate to an employer which has the centre of its main interests in the territory of a Member State of the European Economic Area other than the United Kingdom;\n(ii) have been commenced in that Member State; and\n(iii) have not come to an end;\n(b) relate to an employer in relation to which a winding up order as mentioned in section 121(3)(g) of the Act (insolvency events) was granted and which was later set aside by the court on the basis that the court did not have jurisdiction to grant the order because the employer did not have an establishment in the United Kingdom; and\n(c) relate to an employer in relation to an occupational pension scheme in respect of which an assessment period would have begun as a result of the grant of the winding up order mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) had that order not been set aside.\n(3) The insolvency practitioner is the liquidator in relation to the insolvency proceedings mentioned in paragraph (2)(a)(i).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In this regulation “insolvency proceedings”, “establishment” and “liquidator” each has the meaning given by Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29th May 2000 on insolvency proceedings.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5A inserted (temp. until 21.07.2017) (21.7.2014) by The Pension Protection Fund (Entry Rules) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1664), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5A(4) omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Pension Protection Fund and Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/294), regs. 1, 5(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 5A(5) substituted (26.6.2017) by The Insolvency Amendment (EU 2015/848) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/702), reg. 1, Sch. para. 93(3) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/590/regulation/5A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:06:47.780645+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}