Regulation 3 Provision of information by scheme administrator to the CommissionersI1C1
United Kingdom
The scheme administrator of a registered pension scheme shall provide to the Commissioners an event report in respect of all of the reportable events specified in column (1) of the Table below which have occurred in respect of the scheme during the reporting year, containing the information specified in column (2).
Table
| Reportable event | Information |
|---|---|
| 1. Unauthorised payments | |
| The name, date of birth (if applicable), address and national insurance or company registration number of the person to whom the payment was made, together with the nature, amount and date of the payment. |
| 2. F3... | |
| 3. Early provision of benefits | |
The scheme provides benefits to a member of the scheme who is under the normal minimum pension agef1 and before the benefits were provided the member was, either in the year in which they were provided or any of the preceding six years—
| The name F4... and national insurance number of the member, the nature, date and amount of the benefits provided, and reasons for those benefits having been provided under normal minimum pension age. |
| 4. Serious ill-health lump sum | |
A scheme pays a member of the scheme a serious ill-health lump sum and before the payment was made the member was, either in the year in which they were provided or any of the preceding six years—
| The name ... and national insurance number of the member, and the date and amount of the payment. |
| 5. Suspension of ill-health pension | |
| An ill-health pension which has been paid, pursuant to pension rule 1 in section 165(1), F5ceases to be paid for any reason other than the member’s death. | The name ... and national insurance number of the member to whom the pension had been paid, the date on which the period of non-payment began and the annual rate of the pension, to which the member was entitled, immediately before that period began. |
| 6. F6... | |
| 7. F7... | |
| 8. F8... | |
| 8A. F9... | |
| 9. Transfers to qualifying recognised overseas pension schemes | |
| The scheme makes a recognised transfer to a qualifying recognised overseas pension F10(“QROPS”) scheme which is not a registered pension scheme. |
|
| F1910. Investment-regulated pension scheme | |
| The scheme becomes, or ceases to be, an investment-regulated pension scheme. |
|
| 11. Changes in scheme rules | |
The scheme changes its rules to—
| The fact of the change and the date on which the change takes effect. |
| 12. Changes to rules of pre-commencement scheme treated as more than one scheme | |
| The scheme, being one which immediately before 6th April 2006 was treated in accordance with section 611 of ICTA as two or more separate schemes, changes its rules in any way. | The fact of the change and the date on which the change takes effect. |
| 13. Change in legal structure of scheme | |
The legal structure of the scheme changes from one of the following categories to another. The categories are—
| The date on which the change took effect, together with—
|
| 14. Change in number of members | |
The number of scheme members falls in a different band at the end of a tax year from that in which it fell at the end of the previous tax year. The bands are—
| The new band applicable to the number of scheme members. |
| 15. F25... | |
| 16. F26... | |
| 17. ... | |
| F2718. Scheme chargeable payment | |
| The scheme is treated as having made a scheme chargeable payment under F28... section 185A (income from taxable property) or F29section 185F (gains from taxable property). | F30The fact that the scheme is to be treated as having made a scheme chargeable payment. |
| 19. Country or territory of establishment | |
| The scheme changes the country or territory in which it is established. | The date of the change and the country or territory in which the scheme becomes established |
| 20. Occupational pension scheme | |
| The scheme becomes, or ceases to be, an occupational pension scheme. | The fact of the change and the date on which the change takes effect. |
| F3120A. Master Trust scheme | |
| The scheme becomes, or ceases to be, a Master Trust scheme within the meaning of section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 2017 | The fact of the change and the date on which the change took effect. |
| 21. F32... | |
| F3322. Annual Allowance | |
| The scheme administrator is required to provide a member with a pension savings statement under regulation 14A(1) F34containing the information specified in regulation 14A(2). | The tax year for which the annual allowance was exceeded and the name and national insurance number of the member together with the information specified in regulation 14A(2)(a). |
| F3523. Dual annual allowances | |
| The scheme administrator is required to provide a member with a pension savings statement under regulation 14A(1) containing the information specified in regulation 14A(10). | The tax year for which the statement is provided and the name and national insurance number of the member together with the information specified in regulation 14A(10)(a) and (b). |
| F3624. Reportable payments of lump sums or lump sum death benefits | |
The scheme makes—
| The information is—
|
Where an individual provides the scheme administrator of a scheme with written confirmation that the individual does not qualify for a national insurance number, the scheme administrator must—
provide the Commissioners with the individual’s date of birth and address in order to obtain an alternative number from them, and
provide this alternative number in place of the national insurance number (where the national insurance number is required by paragraph (1)).
Paragraph (2B) applies to any amendment—
delivered on or after 6th April 2011 to an event report delivered before 6th April 2011, and
which relates to an individual whose details were included in respect of a reportable event in the event report which is being amended.
Where paragraph (1) requires the scheme administrator of the scheme to provide the Commissioners with an individual’s national insurance number and where the national insurance number is not known to the scheme administrator —
paragraph (2) does not apply, and
the scheme administrator may provide the date of birth in place of the national insurance number.
For the purposes of reportable event 3 “benefits” does not include a payment—
which is reportable as reportable event 1 or reportable event 4; or
which falls within paragraph 10 of Schedule 29.
No event report is required by virtue of reportable event 10 in respect of arrangements—
where all the assets held by the scheme comprise contracts or policies of insurance, units in unit trust schemes or shares in open-ended investment companies and in managing those investments, the scheme administrator does not consult with any member of the scheme except to the extent necessary by virtue of the investment offering choices that are available to any person; and
under which all contributions paid are, after deduction of expenses, invested in deposits with deposit takers and the payment of interest on those deposits comprises the only income of the scheme from its investments.
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The event report shall—
be in a form specified by the Commissioners, and
An event report in respect of reportable event 9 must be delivered within 60 days beginning with the day of the transfer to which it relates F42but, if the scheme administrator applies before the end of those 60 days for a repayment of overseas transfer charge on the transfer, the report must be delivered before the administrator applies for the repayment..
An event report in respect of reportable event 20A must be delivered within 30 days of the event.
An event report in respect of reportable event 22, in a case where regulation 14A(6A) or (6B) applies, must be delivered—
within 3 months of the date of issue of the pension savings statement, or
if later, on or before 31st January following the tax year to which the report relates.
For the purposes of event 24, a lump sum paid to a member is “reportable” if any of the following four conditions is met.
The first condition is that—
the member becoming entitled to the lump sum constitutes a relevant benefit crystallisation event within the meaning of section 637Q of ITEPA 2003, and
the amount of the payment exceeds the amount of the member’s lump sum allowance that is available on the member becoming so entitled.
The second condition is that—
the member becoming entitled to the lump sum constitutes a relevant benefit crystallisation event within the meaning of section 637S of ITEPA 2003, and
the amount of the payment exceeds the amount of the member’s lump sum and death benefit allowance that is available on the member becoming so entitled.
The third condition is that—
the member becoming entitled to the lump sum constitutes a relevant benefit crystallisation event within the meaning of section 637Q of ITEPA 2003,
the member’s lump sum allowance is, by virtue of any enactment, higher than the standard lump sum allowance, and
the amount of the payment exceeds the amount of the member’s lump sum allowance that would have been available on the member becoming so entitled had that allowance been the standard lump sum allowance.
The fourth condition is that—
the member becoming entitled to the lump sum constitutes a relevant benefit crystallisation event within the meaning of section 637S of ITEPA 2003,
the member’s lump sum and death benefit allowance is, by virtue of any enactment, higher than the standard lump sum and death benefit allowance, and
the amount of the payment exceeds the amount of the member’s lump sum and death benefit allowance that would have been available on the member becoming so entitled had that allowance been the standard lump sum and death benefit allowance.
For the purposes of event 24, a lump sum death benefit paid in respect of a member is “reportable” if the following condition is met.
The condition is that—
the payment constitutes a relevant benefit crystallisation event within the meaning of section 637S of ITEPA 2003, and
the amount of the payment, either alone or when aggregated with other payments of lump sum death benefits from the same scheme that constitute relevant benefit crystallisation events within the meaning of section 637S of ITEPA 2003, exceeds the amount of the standard lump sum and death benefit allowance.
In this regulation—
“the standard lump sum allowance” means the amount specified in section 637P of ITEPA, disregarding the effect of any enactment under which the amount specified in that section is treated as a different amount in relation to any individual;
“the standard lump sum and death benefit allowance” means the amount specified in section 637R of ITEPA, disregarding the effect of any enactment under which the amount specified in that section is treated as a different amount in relation to any individual.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 3 Table entry 1 substituted (6.4.2011) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/301), regs. 1, 3(a)(i)
- F2
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 1 substituted (11.8.2011) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1797), regs. 1(1), 4(2)
- F3
Reg. 3(1) Table entry 2 omitted (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 9 paras. 106(2)(a), 124 (with Sch. 9 paras. 125-132A) (as amended by S.I. 2024/356, regs. 1, 4)
- F4
Words in reg. 3 Table entries 3-8A omitted (6.4.2011) by virtue of The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/301), regs. 1, 3(a)(iii)
- F5
Words in reg. 3 Table entry 5 substituted (6.4.2008) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/720), regs. 1, 3(a)
- F6
Reg. 3(1) Table entry 6 omitted (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 9 paras. 106(2)(b), 124 (with Sch. 9 paras. 125-132A) (as amended by S.I. 2024/356, regs. 1, 4)
- F7
Reg. 3(1) Table entry 7 omitted (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 9 paras. 106(2)(c), 124 (with Sch. 9 paras. 125-132A) (as amended by S.I. 2024/356, regs. 1, 4)
- F8
Reg. 3(1) Table entry 8 omitted (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 9 paras. 106(2)(d), 124 (with Sch. 9 paras. 125-132A) (as amended by S.I. 2024/356, regs. 1, 4)
- F9
Reg. 3(1) Table entry 9 omitted (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 9 paras. 106(2)(e), 124 (with Sch. 9 paras. 125-132A) (as amended by S.I. 2024/356, regs. 1, 4)
- F10
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 9 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes and Overseas Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/884), regs. 1(1), 12(a)(i)
- F11
Words in reg. 3 Table entry 9 substituted (6.4.2011) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/301), regs. 1, 3(a)(iv)
- F12
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 9 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes and Overseas Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/884), regs. 1(1), 12(a)(ii)
- F13
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 9 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1742), regs. 1(1), 4(3)
- F14
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 9 inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 25 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2017 (c. 10), Sch. 4 para. 24(2)(a) (with Sch. 4 para. 24(8))
- F15
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 9 inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 25 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2017 (c. 10), Sch. 4 para. 24(2)(b) (with Sch. 4 para. 24(8))
- F16
Word in reg. 3(1) Table entry 9 omitted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 24(2)(a)(i)
- F17
Word in reg. 3(1) Table entry 9 inserted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 24(2)(a)(ii)
- F18
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 9 inserted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 24(2)(a)(iii)
- F19
Reg. 3(1) Table entry 10 substituted (11.8.2006) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1961), regs. 1, 3(2)(b)
- F20
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 11 inserted (11.8.2006) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1961), regs. 1, 3(2)(c)
- F21
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 13 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/606), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a)
- F22
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 13 omitted (11.8.2006) by virtue of The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1961), regs. 1, 3(2)(d)
- F23
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 13 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/606), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(b)
- F24
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 14 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/606), regs. 1(1), 3(3)
- F25
Reg. 3(1) Table entries 15, 17 omitted (11.8.2011) by virtue of The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1797), regs. 1(1), 4(7)
- F26
Reg. 3 Table entry 16 omitted (6.4.2008) by virtue of The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/720), regs. 1, 3(d)
- F27
Reg. 3(1) Table entries 18-20 inserted (11.8.2006) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1961), regs. 1, 3(2)(e)
- F28
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 18 omitted (11.8.2011) by virtue of The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1797), regs. 1(1), 4(8)
- F29
Words in reg. 3 Table entry 18 substituted (6.4.2008) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/720), regs. 1, 3(e)(ii)
- F30
Words in reg. 3 Table entry 18 substituted (6.4.2008) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/720), regs. 1, 3(e)(iii)
- F31
Reg. 3(1) Table entry 20A inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes and Overseas Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/5), regs. 1(1), 3(a)
- F32
Reg. 3(1) Table entry 21 omitted (17.12.2014) by virtue of Taxation of Pensions Act 2014 (c. 30), Sch. 1 para. 35(2)
- F33
Reg. 3(1) Table entry 22 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1742), regs. 1(1), 4(4)
- F34
Words in reg. 3(1) Table entry 22 inserted (6.4.2015) by Taxation of Pensions Act 2014 (c. 30), Sch. 1 paras. 90(2), 91(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 91(b))
- F35
Reg. 3(1) Table entry 23 inserted (6.4.2015) by Taxation of Pensions Act 2014 (c. 30), Sch. 1 paras. 90(3), 91(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 91(b))
- F36
Reg. 3 Table entry 24 substituted (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/356), regs. 1(3), 9(3)
- F37
Reg. 3(2)-(2B) substituted for reg. 3(2) (6.4.2011) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/301), regs. 1, 3(b)
- F38
Reg. 3(5) omitted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 24(2)(b)
- F39
Words in reg. 3(6)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes and Overseas Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/884), regs. 1(1), 12(b)
- F40
Word in reg. 3(6)(b) inserted (6.4.2022) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/392), regs. 1, 3(a)
- F41
Reg. 3(7) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes and Overseas Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/884), regs. 1(1), 12(c)
- F42
Words in reg. 3(7) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 25 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2017 (c. 10), Sch. 4 para. 24(3) (with Sch. 4 para. 24(8))
- F43
Reg. 3(8) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Registered Pension Schemes and Overseas Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/5), regs. 1(1), 3(b)
- F44
Reg. 3(9) inserted (6.4.2022) by The Registered Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/392), regs. 1, 3(b)
- F45
Reg. 3(10)-(17) inserted (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/356), regs. 1(3), 9(4)
Modifications
- C1
Reg. 3 modified (6.4.2023) by The Public Service Pension Schemes (Rectification of Unlawful Discrimination) (Tax) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/113), regs. 1(2), 5 (with reg. 1(3))
- C2
Reg. 3(7) excluded (14.10.2013) by The Registered Pension Schemes and Overseas Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2259), regs. 1, 6(1)
Commencement
- I1
Reg. 3 in force at 6.4.2006, see reg. 1
Footnotes
- f1
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See section 279(1) and paragraph 21 of Schedule 36..