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Version date: 25 December 2013 - onwards

9. Amendment of section 48 of Principal Act

Section 48 of the Act of 1990 is amended -

(a) by inserting the following subsections after subsection (1A):

"(1AA) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (1A), in applying the resources of a relevant scheme, other than a relevant scheme referred to in subsection (1AB), that is wound up after the passing of the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2013, the trustees shall discharge the liabilities of the relevant scheme for the following benefits in the following order:

(a) firstly -

(i) all additional benefits secured or granted by way of additional voluntary contributions or a transfer of rights from another scheme to which paragraph 2 of the Third Schedule relates to the extent that the rights to which the transfer relates were originally secured or granted by way of additional voluntary contributions, and

(ii) benefits, the rate or amount of which is directly determined by the accumulated value of the contributions paid by or in respect of a member, or a transfer of rights from another scheme to the extent that the rate or amount of the rights to which the transfer relates is directly determined by the accumulated value of the contributions paid by or in respect of the member;