Finance Act 2004

20(1)This paragraph makes provision about an individual who, on 5th April 2006, has an actual (rather than a prospective) right to the payment of one or more relevant existing pensions.U.K.

(2)Section 219 (availability of individual’s lifetime allowance) applies as if, immediately before the first benefit crystallisation event occurring in relation to the individual—

(a)a benefit crystallisation event had occurred in relation to the individual, and

(b)the amount crystallised was the value of the individual’s pre-commencement pension rights immediately before the benefit crystallisation event.

(3)The value of the individual’s pre-commencement pension rights at any time is—

[F1(4)In the case of drawdown pension, ARP is—

(a)the maximum amount that may be paid in the drawdown pension year in which the time falls in accordance with pension rule 5 (see section 165), or

(b)in the case of an arrangement to which subsection (3A) of section 165 applies, the maximum amount that could have been paid in accordance with that rule in the drawdown pension year in which that subsection first applied to the arrangement if it had not so applied.]

(5)In this paragraph “relevant existing pension” has the same meaning as in paragraph 10(2); and paragraph 10(4) and (5) operates for the purposes of this paragraph for determining the annual rate at which a relevant existing pension is payable at any time (treating the references there to 5th April 2006 as to that time).