Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999
Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (1999 c. 30)
- Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (1999 c. 30)
- Part I Stakeholder pension schemes
- 1 Meaning of “stakeholder pension scheme”.
- 2 Registration of stakeholder pension schemes.
- 3 Duty of employers to facilitate access to stakeholder pension schemes.
- 4 Obtaining information with respect to compliance with section 3 and corresponding Northern Ireland legislation.
- 5 Powers of inspection for securing compliance with section 3 and corresponding Northern Ireland legislation.
- 6 Application of certain enactments.
- 7 Reduced rates of contributions etc: power to specify different percentages.
- 8 Interpretation and application of Part I.
- Part II Pensions: general
- Payments by employers to pension schemes
- 9 Monitoring of employers’ payments to personal pension schemes.
- 10 Late payments by employers to occupational pension schemes.
- Pensions and bankruptcy
- 11 Effect of bankruptcy on pension rights: approved arrangements.
- 12 Effect of bankruptcy on pension rights: unapproved arrangements.
- 13 Sections 11 and 12: application to Scotland.
- 14 No forfeiture on bankruptcy of rights under pension schemes.
- 15 Excessive pension contributions made by persons who have become bankrupt.
- 16 Excessive pension contributions made by persons who have become bankrupt: Scotland.
- Miscellaneous
- 17 Compensating occupational pension schemes.
- 18 Miscellaneous amendments.
- Part III Pensions on divorce etc.
- Pension sharing orders
- 19 Orders in England and Wales.
- 20 Orders in Scotland.
- Sections 25B to 25D of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973
- 21 Amendments.
- 22 Extension to overseas divorces etc.
- Miscellaneous
- 23 Supply of pension information in connection with divorce etc.
- 24 Charges by pension arrangements in relation to earmarking orders.
- Supplementary
- 25 Power to make consequential amendments of Part III.
- 26 Interpretation of Part III.
- Part IV Pension sharing
- Chapter I Sharing of rights under pension arrangements
- Pension sharing mechanism
- 27 Scope of mechanism.
- 28 Activation of pension sharing.
- 29 Creation of pension debits and credits.
- 30 Cash equivalents.
- Pension debits
- 31 Reduction of benefit.
- 32 Effect on contracted-out rights.
- Pension credits
- 33 Time for discharge of liability.
- 34 “Implementation period”.
- 35 Mode of discharge of liability.
- Treatment of pension credit rights under schemes
- 36 Safeguarded rights.
- 37 Requirements relating to pension credit benefit.
- 38 Treatment in winding up.
- Indexation
- 39 Public service pension schemes.
- 40 Other pension schemes.
- Charges by pension arrangements
- 41 Charges in respect of pension sharing costs.
- Adaptation of statutory schemes
- 42 Extension of scheme-making powers.
- 43 Power to extend judicial pension schemes.
- Supplementary
- 44 Disapplication of restrictions on alienation.
- 45 Information.
- 46 Interpretation of Chapter I.
- Chapter II Sharing of state scheme rights
- 47 Shareable state scheme rights.
- 48 Activation of benefit sharing.
- 49 Creation of state scheme pension debits and credits.
- 49A Creation of debits and credits: transferor in new state pension system and sharing activated on or after 6 April 2016
- 50 Effect of state scheme pension debits and credits.
- 51 Interpretation of Chapter II.
- Part V Welfare
- Chapter I Social security benefits
- Additional pensions
- 52 Preservation of rights in respect of additional pensions.
- State maternity allowance
- 53 Extension of entitlement to state maternity allowance.
- Benefits for widows and widowers
- 54 Bereavement payments.
- 55 New allowances for bereaved spouses.
- 56 Entitlement to Category B retirement pension by reference to new allowances.
- Work-focused interviews
- 57 Claim or full entitlement to certain benefits conditional on work-focused interview.
- 58 Optional work-focused interviews.
- Jobseeker’s allowance
- 59 Couples to make joint claim for allowance.
- 60 Special schemes for claimants for jobseeker’s allowance.
- Incapacity for work
- 61 Incapacity for work: personal capability assessments.
- Incapacity benefits
- 62 Incapacity benefit: restriction to recent contributors.
- 63 Incapacity benefit: reduction for pension payments.
- 64 Incapacity benefit: persons incapacitated in youth.
- 65 Abolition of severe disablement allowance.
- Disability benefits
- 66 Attendance allowance.
- 67 Disability living allowance.
- Miscellaneous
- 68 Certain overpayments of benefit not to be recoverable.
- 69 Child benefit: claimant to state national insurance number.
- 70 Welfare benefits: miscellaneous amendments.
- Supplementary
- 71 Sharing of functions as regards claims and information.
- 72 Supply of information for certain purposes.
- Chapter II National Insurance contributions
- 73 New threshold for primary Class 1 contributions.
- 74 New threshold for primary Class 1 contributions: Northern Ireland.
- 75 Earnings of workers supplied by service companies etc.
- 76 Earnings of workers supplied by service companies etc: Northern Ireland.
- 77 Class 1B contributions.
- 78 Class 1B contributions: Northern Ireland.
- Chapter III Other welfare provisions
- 79 Measures to reduce under-occupation by housing benefit claimants.
- 80 Supply of information for child support purposes.
- Part VI General
- Miscellaneous
- 81 Contributions and pensions administration.
- 82 Authorisation of certain expenditure.
- Supplementary
- 83 Regulations and orders.
- 84 Consequential amendments etc.
- 85 Transitional provisions.
- 86 General financial provisions.
- 87 Corresponding provisions for Northern Ireland.
- 88 Repeals.
- 89 Commencement.
- 90 Extent.
- 91 Short title, general interpretation and Scottish devolution.
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Application of 1993 and 1995 Acts to registered schemes
- SCHEDULE 2 Pensions: miscellaneous amendments
- Income payments orders against pension payments
- Extended meaning of “personal pension scheme”
- Revaluation of earnings factors: meaning of “relevant year”
- Interim arrangements
- Effect of certain orders on guaranteed minimum pensions
- Mandatory payment of contributions equivalent premiums
- Payment by Secretary of State of unpaid pension contributions
- Supervision by the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority
- Occupational pension schemes: institutions who may hold money deposited by trustees etc.
- Annual increase in rate of pension
- Occupational pension schemes: certificates etc. relating to minimum funding requirement
- Excess assets of wound-up schemes
- Pensions Compensation Board
- Diligence against pensions: Scotland
- Pensionable service
- Occupational pension schemes: rights of employee who is director of corporate trustee
- SCHEDULE 3 Pension sharing orders: England and Wales
- SCHEDULE 4 Amendments of sections 25B to 25D of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973
- SCHEDULE 5 Pension credits: mode of discharge
- Funded pension schemes
- Unfunded public service pension schemes
- Other unfunded occupational pension schemes
- Other pension arrangements
- Appropriate rights
- Qualifying arrangements
- Disqualification as destination for pension credit
- Adjustments to amount of pension credit
- General
- SCHEDULE 6 Effect of state scheme pension debits and credits
- SCHEDULE 7 Joint claims for jobseeker’s allowance
- Jobseekers Act 1995 (c.18)
- Social Security Act 1998 (c.14)
- SCHEDULE 8 Welfare benefits: minor and consequential amendments
- Part I Bereavement benefits
- Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c.1)
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)
- Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c.48)
- Pensions Act 1995 (c.26)
- Part II Incapacity
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4)
- Part III Abolition of severe disablement allowance
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4)
- Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c.53)
- Part IV Income support
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4)
- Part V Jobseeker’s allowance
- Jobseekers Act 1995 (c.18)
- Part VI Maternity allowance
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4)
- Part VII Retirement pensions
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4)
- Part VIII Administration of benefits
- SCHEDULE 9 New threshold for primary Class 1 contributions
- Part I New primary threshold
- Earnings limits and thresholds for Class 1 contributions
- Liability for Class 1 contributions
- Notional payment of primary Class 1 contribution where earnings not less than lower earnings limit
- Calculation of primary Class 1 contributions
- Calculation of secondary Class 1 contributions
- Part II Reduced contributions in respect of members of contracted-out schemes
- Reduced rates for members of salary related contracted-out schemes
- Reduced rates for members of money purchase contracted-out schemes
- Payments by Inland Revenue out of and into National Insurance Fund
- Part III National Health Service allocation
- SCHEDULE 10 New threshold for primary Class 1 contributions: Northern Ireland
- Part I New primary threshold
- Earnings limits and thresholds for Class 1 contributions
- Liability for Class 1 contributions
- Notional payment of primary Class 1 contribution where earnings not less than lower earnings limit
- Calculation of primary Class 1 contributions
- Calculation of secondary Class 1 contributions
- Part II Reduced contributions in respect of members of contracted-out schemes
- Reduced rates for members of salary related contracted-out schemes
- Reduced rates for members of money purchase contracted-out schemes
- Payments by Inland Revenue out of and into National Insurance Fund
- Part III Health Service allocation
- SCHEDULE 11 Contributions and pensions administration
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7)
- Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c.8)
- Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c.48)
- Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 (c.49)
- Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c.2)
- Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671)
- Transfer of certain functions under subordinate legislation: Great Britain
- Transfer of certain functions under subordinate legislation: Northern Ireland
- Savings
- SCHEDULE 12 Consequential amendments
- Part I Amendments consequential on Parts III and IV
- Senior Courts Act 1981 (c.54)
- Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c.42)
- Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 (c.37)
- Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c.1)
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)
- Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c.48)
- Pensions Act 1995 (c.26)
- Family Law Act 1996 (c.27)
- Part II Other consequential amendments
- Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 (c.66)
- Insolvency Act 1986 (c.45)
- Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c.1)
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c.7)
- Social Security Act 1998 (c.14)
- SCHEDULE 13 Repeals
- Part I Pensions: miscellaneous
- Part II Pensions on divorce etc
- Part III Pension sharing
- Part IV Abolition of severe disablement allowance
- Part V Benefits: miscellaneous
- Part VI National Insurance contributions etc
- Part VII National Insurance contributions etc: Northern Ireland
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