# The Pension Protection Fund (Pensions on Divorce etc: Charges) Regulations 2011, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations apply where a pension sharing or pension attachment order or provision was made before the Board of the Pension Protection Fund (“the Board”) assumed responsibility for an occupational pension scheme and (in the case of a pension sharing order or provision) was not implemented by the trustees or managers of the scheme prior to the scheme’s transfer to the Pension Protection Fund. The Regulations set out the costs which may be charged to the parties to the order or provision and the circumstances in which the Board may recover the costs of implementing a pension sharing order or provision, or complying with a pension attachment order or provision.
Regulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and interpretation of the Regulations.
Regulation 2 sets out the information that the Board must provide to the parties where a pension sharing order or provision or pension attachment order or provision has been made before the Board assumed responsibility for a scheme, and the Board has become responsible for implementing or complying with the order or provision.
Regulation 3 sets out the circumstances in which the Board may recover costs from the parties to a pension sharing order or provision or an attachment order or provision.
Regulation 4 permits the Board to recover from the parties to a pension sharing order or provision the costs of implementing that order and of providing information associated with implementation of that order. The Board may also recover costs in relation to the reasonable administrative expenses which it has incurred by reason of complying with a pension attachment order or provision.
Regulation 5 sets out the methods by which and the circumstances in which the Board may recover the costs.
Before making these Regulations the Secretary of State has consulted such persons as the Secretary of State considered appropriate.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector and civil society organisations. An assessment of the impact of the legislative changes made by Part 3 of the Pensions Act 2008 (c. 30) was included as part of the Impact Assessment that accompanied the Act, published on 5th December 2007. This is available from the DWP website: http:/www.dwp.gov.uk/resourcescentre/ria.asp.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/726/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-pensions-on-divorce-etc-charges-regulations-2011/note
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