The Pension Protection Fund (Eligible Schemes) Appointed Day Order 2005

This Order appoints the day for the purposes of section 126(2) of the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35) (“the Act”) as 6th April 2005. Subsection (2) of section 126 of the Act provides that the day appointed for the purposes of that subsection is to be the day on or after which an occupational pension scheme is not to be an eligible scheme if, immediately before that day, it is being wound up. Section 126 of the Act makes provision in respect of the occupational pension schemes which are eligible schemes for the purposes of Part 2 of that Act.

Author: Malcolm Wicks, Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

Last modified: 2010-07-16