Pensions (Amendment) Act, 1996

Amendment of section 49 of Principal Act.

18.—Section 49 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—

(a) the substitution, in subsection (2), for paragraphs (c) and (d) of the following paragraphs:

“(c) be signed by or on behalf of the employer and by or on behalf of the trustees of the scheme, in each case signifying agreement to the proposal, and

(d) be submitted by the trustees of the scheme with the actuarial funding certificate to which it relates.”,

and

(b) the insertion after subsection (3) of the following subsection:

“(4) In this section ‘employer’ means the employer who undertakes the role of principal employer for the purposes of such scheme's approval by the Revenue Commissioners under Chapter II of Part I of the Finance Act, 1972 .”.