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Article 540 Payment of interest on late paid benefit
(1) For paragraph (2)(b) of regulation 6 [Regulation 6(2) was amended by S.I. 1998/1129.] of the Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Pensions Ombudsman) Regulations 1996 (payment of interest on late paid benefit), substitute -
(b) "reference banks" means the four largest persons for the time being who -
(i) have permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to accept deposits,
(ii) are incorporated in the United Kingdom and carrying on there a regulated activity of accepting deposits, and
(iii) quote a base rate applicable to sterling deposits.".
(2) After paragraph (2) of that regulation insert -
"(3) Paragraph (2)(b) must be read with -
(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
(b) any relevant order under that section; and
(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.".