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On 23 February 2004, the Regulations requiring solvent employers of defined benefit (DB) schemes which are winding up to buy all members’ benefits out in full were finally laid before Parliament. The Regulations, which were first...
More than 18 months after the publication of the Pickering report on the simplification of pensions, on 12 February 2004 the Pensions Bill was published. Much of the Bill is dedicated to the new Regulator and the Pension Protection Fund....
Building further on the aims set out in the Green Paper and the “Action Plan” for encouraging individuals to save for their retirement, the Government published its latest pensions paper on 3 February 2004. The main focus of...
The latest decision in the Preston part-timer saga was handed down by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) in December 2003, with the EAT reversing the earlier decision of the Employment Tribunal on the impact of TUPE on...
As part of its aim to adopt a more risk-based approach to dealing with breaches of the Pensions Act, on 23 January 2004 Opra announced a relaxation in its requirements for trustees reporting late payment of contributions by employers....
On 13 January 2004, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) essentially concluded in Allonby v Accrington & Rossendale College and others that a self-employed worker may be able to claim membership of a statutory occupational pension...
There has been a longstanding difficulty for employers wishing to arrange unapproved group life assurance. The employer can be subject to a tax charge on the “deemed gain” on the second and subsequent deaths. The Finance Act...
