Section 101AA — Pensions Act 2004: Scope of Chapter 5

Scope of Chapter 5 101AA 1 This Chapter applies to any member of an occupational pension scheme to which Chapter 1 applies (see section 69(3)) if—

a his pensionable service terminates before he attains normal pension age, and b on the date on which his pensionable service terminates—

i the three month condition is satisfied, but ii he does not have relevant accrued rights to benefit under the scheme.

2 For the purposes of subsection (1), the three month condition is that the period of the member’s pensionable service under the scheme, taken together with—

a any previous period of his pensionable service under the scheme, and b any period throughout which he was employed in linked qualifying service under another scheme, amounts to at least three months.

3 A period counts for the purposes of paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (2) only so far as it counts towards qualification for long service benefit within the meaning of Chapter 1.

4 For the purposes of subsection (1), “ relevant accrued rights to benefit under the scheme ”, in relation to a member of a scheme, means rights which—

a have accrued to or in respect of him under the scheme, and b entitle him to the relevant benefits which would have accrued to or in respect of him under the applicable rules if paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 71(1) (and the word “and” immediately preceding them) did not have effect.

5 References in the following provisions of this Chapter to a member, in relation to an occupational pension scheme, are to a member of the scheme to whom this Chapter applies.