The Pensions Schemes (Application of UK Provisions to Relevant Non-UK Schemes) Regulations 2006

• (4) If the payment is a transfer, to the extent that the transfer is not a payment treated as made by virtue of section 174A, it is made out of the member’s fund in the following order of priority—

• (a) the member’s RFTF made under the scheme (including such funds with a key date of before 6th April 2017) in priority of the latest key date to the earliest key date of the fund,

• (b) so much of the member’s UK tax-relieved funds’ made under the scheme before 6th April 2017,

• (c) the member’s RTF,

• (d) so much of the member’s UK tax-relieved funds’ made under the scheme on or after 6th April 2017,

• (e) any other funds under that scheme.

• (5) If the payment is a transfer, to the extent that the transfer is a payment treated as made by virtue of section 174A, it is attributed in the following order of priority—

• (a) the member’s RFTATF and RFTF in priority of the RFTF with the latest key date to the earliest key date of the fund,

• (b) if the RFTATF is nil, the member’s RTF and TATF.

• (6) If the payment is an unauthorised payment by virtue of section 174A, or a payment other than a transfer, treated as made by virtue of section 174A, it is treated as referable to the member’s funds in the following order of priority—

• (a) the payment shall first be treated as referable to the member’s RTF and TATF,

• (b) if the member’s TATF is nil, or has been reduced to nil, the payment shall be treated as referable to the member’s RFTF, in priority of the RFTF with the earliest key date to the latest key date, and the RFTATF.

• (7) Where a payment or crystallisation event described in regulation 4ZA(3)(b) is referable to the member’s RTF or TATF, the funds will be reduced in accordance with the following Rules (with an earlier Rule applying in preference to a later Rule).

Rule 1

Where an unauthorised payment is made by the scheme by virtue of section 174A—

• (a) the payment shall be treated as made out of the member’s RTF and TATF, but

• (b) the interest in taxable property, in respect of which the unauthorised payment is treated as made, shall represent the payment and form part of the member’s RTF and TATF (an “appropriated asset”), up to an amount equal to the amount of the payment.

Rule 2

Accordingly, if a scheme transfers that appropriated asset (or an interest in a vehicle through which the scheme holds the interest in the taxable property indirectly), or part of it, to another pension scheme, that transfer will be treated as a transfer of the whole or part, as the case may be, of the member’s RTF and TATF (limited to the amount of the unauthorised payment) to that other scheme, falling (if appropriate) within regulation 3A(1)(b).

Rule 3

If a scheme disposes of (other than to a pension scheme) an appropriated asset (or an interest in a vehicle through which the scheme holds the interest in the taxable property indirectly), or part of it, any other property which directly or indirectly represents proceeds of either of those interests (limited to the amount of the unauthorised payment) will form part of the member’s RTF and TATF.

Rule 4

This rule applies to crystallisation events and payments made by the scheme to or in respect of the member, other than—

• (a) a transfer of an interest in taxable property or an interest in a vehicle through which the scheme holds the interest in the taxable property indirectly, and

• (b) payments treated as made by virtue of section 174A.

So far as the member’s RTF and TATF are not represented by appropriated assets—

• (a) where the member has both an RTF and a TATF, and the amount of his RTF exceeds the amount of his TATF, such payments shall, to the extent of that excess, be treated as made out of his RTF (but not his TATF) and as reducing his RTF, and subject thereto

• (b) such payments are made out of the member’s RTF and TATF in priority to any other fund under that scheme, and reduce (but not below nil) the amount of the RTF and TATF.

• (8) Where the payment or crystallisation event described at regulation 4ZA(3)(b) is referable to a member’s RFTF or RFTATF, the funds shall be reduced in accordance with the following Rules (with an earlier Rule applying in preference to a later Rule).

Rule 1

Where an unauthorised payment is treated as made by the scheme by virtue of section 174A—

• (a) the payment will be treated as made out of the member’s RFTF and RFTATF, but

• (b) the interest in taxable property, in respect of which the unauthorised payment is treated as made, will represent the payment and form part of the member’s RFTF and RFTATF (an “appropriated asset”), up to an amount equal to the amount of that payment.

Rule 2

Accordingly, if a scheme transfers that appropriated asset (or an interest in a vehicle through which the scheme holds the interest in the taxable property indirectly), or part of it, to another pension scheme, that transfer shall be treated as a transfer of the whole or part, as the case may be, of the member’s RFTF and RFTATF (limited to the amount of the unauthorised payment) to that other scheme, falling (if appropriate) within regulation 3C(b).

Rule 3

If a scheme disposes (other than to another pension scheme) of an appropriated asset (or an interest in a vehicle through which the scheme holds the interest in the taxable property indirectly), or part of it, any other property which directly or indirectly represents proceeds of either of those interests (limited to the amount of the unauthorised payment) will form part of the member’s RFTF and RFTATF.

Rule 4

This Rule applies to crystallisation events and payments made by the scheme to or in respect of the member, other than—

• (a) a transfer of an interest in taxable property or an interest in a vehicle through which the scheme holds the interest in the taxable property indirectly, and

• (b) payments treated as made by virtue of section 174A.

So far as the member’s RFTF and RFTATF are not represented by appropriated assets—

• (a) where the member has both an RFTF and RFTATF, and the aggregate amount of his RFTFs exceeds the amount of his RFTATF, such payments will, to the extent of that excess, be treated as made out of his RFTF (but not his RFTATF) and as reducing the RFTF, and subject thereto

• (b) such payments are made out of the member’s RFTF and RFTATF and reduce (but not below nil) the amount of the RFTF and RFTATF.

• (9) References to “payments treated as made by virtue of section 174A” include references to payments treated as made by regulations under paragraph 37 of Schedule 29A and paragraph 7A of Schedule 34.

Reversal of fund depletion

4ZD

• (1) Where—

• (a) a scheme makes a transfer, and

• (b) the member’s funds have been previously reduced by a crystallisation event described in regulation 4ZA(3)(b),

then immediately before the transfer the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (3) will be attributed back to the member’s funds in accordance with the order provided by regulation 4ZC(4).

• (2) Where—

• (a) the scheme receives a transfer,

• (b) after receipt of that transfer the member’s funds have been reduced by a crystallisation event set out in regulation 4ZA(3)(b), and

• (c) the transfer is one required by section 244B and 244C to be initially assumed to be excluded by that section but, after the member’s funds have been reduced by a crystallisation event set out in regulation 4ZA(3)(b), an event occurring before the end of the relevant period means that the transfer is not so excluded

then immediately before the event causing the transfer to be not excluded from the overseas transfer charge the amount to be calculated in accordance with paragraph (3) will be attributed back to the member’s funds in accordance with the order provided by regulation 4ZC(4).

• (3) The amount to be attributed back to the member’s funds under paragraphs (1) and (2) is—

$(A+B)−C$

• Where

A is the amount (being not less than nil) found under regulation 4ZB(5) less the aggregate amount of drawdown pension paid from that flexi-access drawdown fund,

B is the amount (being not less than nil) found under regulation 4ZB(7) less the aggregate amount of the scheme pension payments made to the member, and

C is the amount of any pension debit paid from that flexi-access drawdown fund, or sums and assets that have been applied towards the provision of scheme pension, on or after 6th April 2017.

• (4) Where—

• (a) the scheme is treated as making an unauthorised payment in accordance with paragraph 2A of Schedule 28, and

• (b) the member’s funds have previously been reduced in accordance with regulation 4ZA(3)(b)(iii)

then immediately before the payment the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (6) will be attributed back to the member’s funds in accordance with paragraph (7).

• (5) Where—

• (a) the member’s funds have been reduced in accordance with regulation 4ZA(3)(b)(iii), and

• (b) no scheme pension has been paid in a period of 12 months for any reason, other than the death of the member or a recognised transfer

the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (6) will be attributed back to the member’s funds in accordance with paragraph (7) on the first anniversary of the last payment of the scheme pension.

• (6) The amount to be attributed back to the member’s funds under paragraphs (4) and (5)—

• (a) is the amount found in regulation 4ZB(7) less the aggregate amount of the scheme pension payments made to the member and the amount of any pension debit paid from sums and assets that had been applied towards the provision of that scheme pension, but

• (b) this amount cannot be below nil.

• (7) The amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (6) will, subject to paragraph (9), be attributed back in the following order of priority—

• (a) to the member’s RFTF, in priority of the RFTF with the latest key date to the earliest key date. The aggregate amount attributed back to the member’s RFTF will also be attributed back to the member’s RFTATF,

• (b) to so much of the member’s UK tax-relieved funds made under the scheme on or after 6th April 2017,

• (c) to the member’s RTF and TATF,

• (d) to so much of the member’s UK tax-relieved funds made under the scheme before 6th April 2017.

• (8) Where a person is temporarily non-resident and the total amount of withdrawals as set out in section 576A(2) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 in a temporary period of non-residence exceeds £100,000, for the purposes of section 576A, regulation 4ZA(3)(b) does not apply.

• (9) The amount attributed back to a fund will not increase the value of the relevant fund found in accordance regulations 2, 3, 3A, 3B and 3C.

Order of attributing repayment of an overseas transfer charge

4ZE

Any repayment of an overseas transfer charge to a scheme manager will be attributed back to the particular fund or funds from which it was referable.

Transitional Provisions

4ZF

• (1) This regulation applies where the member designated sums and assets as available for payment of a drawdown pension, or became entitled to a scheme pension, before 6th April 2017.

• (2) The payment of the drawdown pension made on or after 6th April 2017 from a flexi-access drawdown fund or drawdown pension fund, to the extent that it relates to the designation made before 6th April 2017, is to be treated as included in the list of payments in regulation 4ZA(3)(a).

• (3) The payment of the scheme pension made on or after 6th April 2017 and from sums and assets applied before 6th April 2017 towards the provision of the scheme pension is to be treated as included in the list of payments in regulation 4ZA(3)(a).

• (4) Where a payment described in paragraphs (2) or (3) is made, the member’s funds will be reduced by the amount of the payment in the order provided by regulation 4ZC(3).

• (5) Where a pension debit is made in respect of sums and assets—

• (a) designated before 6th April 2017 as available for payment of a drawdown pension, or

• (b) applied before 6th April 2017 towards the provision of a scheme pension,

regulation 4ZB(4) is treated as including the amount of the pension debit that derives from those funds.

• (6) Regulation 4ZD does not apply in respect of any sums and assets—

• (a) designated before 6th April 2017 for the payment of a drawdown pension, or

• (b) applied before 6th April 2017 towards the provision of a scheme pension.

Taxable property provisions to apply to a transfer member of a relevant non-UK scheme (to payments referable to his taxable asset transfer fund or ring-fenced taxable asset transfer fund)

Unauthorised payments charge to apply (in lieu of scheme chargeable payment)

Modification of paragraph 15 of Schedule 29A

Modifications of paragraphs 29 and 31 of Schedule 29A

Modifications of Chapter 15A of ITEPA 2003 in respect of relevant non-UK schemes