PART 13The Pension Protection Fund
Discharge as money purchase liabilities: periods before the appointed dayI153
1
Where the Board or the trustees or managers of an occupational pension scheme have, before the appointed day, secured the discharge of liabilities in respect of any of the benefits specified in regulation 44(3) (validity of valuations etc, determinations, transfer notices and discharge of benefits before the appointed day) that discharge is to be regarded as having been made—
a
where the Board has secured the discharge of those liabilities, in accordance with section 170 of the 2004 Act (discharge of liabilities in respect of money purchase benefits)98; or
b
where the trustees or managers of the scheme have secured the discharge of those liabilities, in accordance with regulation 2 of the Pension Protection Fund (Hybrid Schemes) (Modification) Regulations 2005 (discharge of liabilities in respect of money purchase benefits during the assessment period)99.
2
Where paragraph (1)(a) or (b) applies, the relevant Pension Protection Fund provisions apply in relation to the liabilities discharged and the assets applied towards their discharge as if they were liabilities for, and assets applied towards, money purchase benefits.