Regulation 3 Amendments to the principal Regulations

Regulation 4 is amended as follows.

In paragraph (4) for the words “The administrator” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraph (4A), the administrator”.

After paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs–

“(4A)

The administrator of the scheme may pay a benefit to an employee in a case where he has not received a benefit certificate from the administrator of the main scheme as mentioned in paragraph (4) or, where the scheme is not the leading scheme in relation to the employee, an authorisation from the administrator of the leading scheme as mentioned in that paragraph, as the case may be, if–

(a)

the employee has either–

(i)

attained the age of 50 years, or

(ii)

become incapable through infirmity of body or mind of carrying on his normal occupation or any occupation of a similar nature for which he is trained or fitted, and

(b)

benefits have neither ceased to accrue to the employee in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 5(5)(c)(i) nor become payable to the employee in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 5(5)(c)(ii).

(4B)

Where–

(a)

an employee has notified the administrator of the scheme that he wishes the payment of benefits under the scheme to be deferred until a date after the event referred to in regulation 5(5)(c)(ii) (not being a date later than the day on which the employee attains the age of 75 years), and

(b)

the employee dies after the event referred to in regulation 5(5)(c)(ii) but before any payment of benefits under the scheme has been made,

the provisions of regulation 6 (with the exception of sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (6) of that regulation) shall apply on the assumption (if not otherwise the case) that the scheme is the leading scheme in relation to the employee.”

In paragraph (5) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted–

“(a)

shall be made–

(i)

in a case where paragraph (4B) applies, as soon as possible after the administrator has made the calculation required by regulation 6 (as applied by that paragraph), and

(ii)

in any other case, as soon as possible following receipt of notice from the leading scheme in relation to the employee of the benefits which may be paid by the scheme;”.