SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4Abolition of contracting-out for defined contribution pension schemes
Part 1Amendments having effect as from abolition date
Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48)
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1
Section 8 (definitions of certain terms) is amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1) (definition of “contracted-out employment”) for the words from “he is under pensionable age” to the end of paragraph (a) substitute
—
a
he is under pensionable age;
aa
his service in the employment is for the time being service which qualifies him for a pension provided by an occupational pension scheme contracted out by virtue of satisfying section 9(2) (in this Act referred to as “a salary related contracted-out scheme”);
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After subsection (1) insert—
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In addition, in relation to any period before the abolition date, the employment of an earner in employed earner's employment was “contracted-out employment” in relation to him during that period if—
a
he was under pensionable age;
b
his employer made minimum payments in respect of his employment to a money purchase contracted-out scheme, and
c
there was in force a contracting-out certificate issued in accordance with this Chapter (as it then had effect) stating that the employment was contracted-out employment by reference to the scheme.
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In subsection (2) for “for the purposes of section 42A” substitute “
for the tax year in which the week falls as specified in an order made under section 42B (as it had effect before the abolition date)
”
.