RPSM02105040 - Technical pages: Registering a pension scheme with HMRC: de-registration: Action on de-registering a pension scheme

Action on de-registering a pension scheme

[Section 157(2) to 157(4)]
Regulation 5, The Registered Pension Schemes and Overseas Pension Schemes (Electronic Communication of Returns and Information) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/570)

When HMRC de-registers a pension scheme, it must notify the scheme administrator that it has done so. The notification must state the date on and after which the scheme will not be a registered pension scheme. The notification may be given electronically.

If there is no scheme administrator, the notification must instead go to any person(s) who has responsibility for the discharge of any obligation relating to the pension scheme and whom it is reasonably practicable for HMRC to identify.

An obligation relating to the scheme means an obligation to meet a liability under Part 4 of Finance Act 2004 that was otherwise a liability of the scheme administrator.

HMRC will also notify the Pensions Regulator that the scheme has been de-registered.

Glossary ( RPSM20000000)