# The Pension Protection Fund (Multi-employer Schemes) (Modification) Regulations 2005, Regulation 26: Transfer notice and assumption of responsibility for a scheme


(1) Section 160 of the Act (transfer notice) shall be modified in its application to a section of a scheme to which regulation 14 applies so that it shall be read as if—
(a) in subsection (1), for the words “required to assume responsibility for a scheme”, there were substituted the words “required to assume responsibility for a multi-employer section of a segregated scheme”;
(b) after subsection (2), there were inserted the following subsection—
“(2A) Where the trustees or managers of a multi-employer section of a segregated scheme receive a transfer notice from the Board under subsection (2), they must send a copy of that notice as soon as practicable to all the employers in relation to that section of the scheme and to the trustees or managers of each section of the scheme (if different).”; and
(c) for subsection (6), there were substituted the following subsection—
“(6) The Board must give a copy of the transfer notice given under subsection (2) to—
(a) the Regulator, and
(b) an insolvency practitioner acting in relation to every employer in relation to the section of the scheme in respect of which the transfer notice is given.”.
(2) Section 161 of the Act (effect of Board assuming responsibility for a scheme) shall be modified in its application to a section of a scheme to which regulation 14 applies so that it shall be read as if—
(a) in paragraph (b) of subsection (2), after the word “obligations”, there were inserted the words “to or in respect of members of that section”; and
(b) in paragraph (a) of subsection (4), after the words “to or in respect of persons”, there were inserted the words “who are or were members of that section”.
(3) Schedule 6 to the Act (transfer of property, rights and liabilities to the Board) shall be modified in its application to a section of a scheme to which regulation 14 applies so that it shall be read as if, in paragraph 1, for the words “an occupational pension scheme”, there were substituted the words “a multi-employer section of a segregated multi-employer scheme”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/441/regulation/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-multi-employer-schemes-modification-regulations-2005/regulation-26
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