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Pensions Act 2008

Part 4: Provisions applicable irrespective of age of transferee on transfer day

315.Paragraph 17 provides for the amount of compensation derived from the transferor’s service after 1997 to be increased every year in line with the increase in prices, subject to a maximum increase of 2.5% a year. This provides for the transferee to receive increases due to take account of inflation in the same way as the transferor. This is subject to the power in paragraph 20 for the Board to alter the maximum rate of increase from 2.5% (the rate established by the amendments made by section 101 and Schedule 2).

316.Paragraph 18 allows the Secretary of State to set out in regulations how the compensation cap under paragraph 26(7) of Schedule 7 to the PA 2004 will apply to the compensation payable to the transferee. The intention is that the cap will apply in a way that ensures that both the transferee and transferor receive the appropriate levels of compensation without creating additional liabilities for the Board of the Pension Protection Fund or opportunities for evasion of the cap.

317.Paragraph 19 provides that regulations may provide for compensation to be payable to partners and dependants of prescribed descriptions. This allows for the extension of compensation payment to surviving civil partners.

318.Paragraph 20 provides that the Board of the Pension Protection Fund may determine the maximum indexation rates for the purposes of paragraphs 8 and 17. For the purposes of paragraph 17 this can only apply to future increases and can apply to all cases or those cases where entitlement arose after the determination. The Board of the Pension Protection Fund must consult anyone it considers appropriate and publish details of the proposed determination as it considers appropriate. The Board must consider any representations made. This is an equivalent power to that which applies in respect of the rates of revaluation and indexation in paragraph 29 of Schedule 7 to the PA 2004.

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