Quarterly Briefing
Contents
The September, 2007 Quarterly Briefing (PDF, 262 KB) highlights significant developments in pensions law, covering key areas such as pensions reform, regulatory developments, new legislation and cases.
Reviews and Reports
- Deregulatory Review
- Financial Assistance Scheme review of scheme assets
- Law Commission report on co-habitation
Responses to consultation
- Personal Accounts
Consultation
- Employer debt
- Cross-border schemes
- Pensions transfer values
Actuarial Profession
- Board of Actuarial Standard’s levy for 2007/08
- Interpretation of IAS19
HM Revenue & Customs
- E-filing
Pension Protection Fund
- Updated management plan
- Launch of new initiative on protecting people’s pensions
- 7800 Index
- Development of the pension protection levy
The Pensions Regulator
- First use of anti-avoidance powers
- Review of code of practice on reporting breaches of the law
- Governance survey published
Miscellaneous
- Annual Report of the Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS)
- Pensions Ombudsman’s Annual Report published
Legislation update
- Pensions Act 2007
- Finance Act 2007
- Companies Act 2006
- The Pension Schemes (Categories of Country and Requirements for Overseas Pension Schemes and Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations 2007
Cases
- Cripps v Trustee Solutions Ltd & Dubery
- JP Morgan Fleming Claverhouse Investment Trust plc (Claverhouse) v HMRC
Other news
- New Secretary of State for Work and Pensions