Introduction Payments by registered pension schemes: surrender
21.Paragraph 10 amends section 172A of FA2004 relating to surrenders of pension rights. Subparagraph 10(2) repeals subparagraph 172A(5)(d) to ensure that where a surrender of rights is made to fund an authorised surplus payment to a sponsoring employer, the surrender is treated as an unauthorised payment of the value of the rights surrendered. Subparagraph 10(3) inserts new subsection (5A) into section 172A so that a surrender of rights in favour of dependant will be treated as an unauthorised payment unless the new rights are provided under the same scheme under which the surrendered rights were held.
22.Paragraph 11 amends section 207 of FA2004 relating to the authorised surplus payments charge. It provides that the authorised payment surplus charge does not apply where the surplus is derived either directly or indirectly from a surrender of rights to the extent that surrender was treated as an unauthorised payment by virtue of section 172A, as amended by paragraph 10.
23.Paragraph 12 provides when paragraphs 10 and 11 have effect.