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The Transfer of Employment (Pension Protection) Regulations 2005

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 7 Cited in Amendments 5 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2005/649
Year2005
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Transfer of Employment (Pension Protection) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 6th April 2005.(2) These Regulations apply in the case of a person (“the employee”) in relation to whom section 257 of the Act (conditions for pension protection) applies, that is to say a person who, in the circumstances described in subsection (1) of that section, ceases to be employed by the transferor of an undertaking or part of an undertaking and becomes employed by the transferee.(3) In these Regulations—
  • “the Act” means the Pensions Act 2004;
  • “remuneration period” means a period in respect of which the employee is paid remuneration.
only payments made in respect of basic pay shall be taken into account and bonus, commission, overtime and similar payments shall be disregarded; andno account shall be taken of any deductions which are made in respect of tax, national insurance or pension contributions.(5) In calculating the amount of a transferee’s pension contributions for the purposes of these Regulations in the case of a scheme which is contracted-out by virtue of section 9 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993, minimum payments within the meaning of that Act shall be disregarded.for members to be entitled to benefits the value of which equals or exceeds 6 per cent. of pensionable pay for each year of employment together with the total amount of any contributions made by them, and, where members are required to make

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