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qualifying scheme

  1. 27(a) a personal pension scheme or stakeholder pension scheme, which provides money purchase benefits, used by an employer(s) to comply with duties imposed in Part 1, Chapter 1 of the Pensions Act 2008. In summary, these duties are to take necessary steps for particular employees, by a particular time, to make those employees members of a pension scheme which meets the criteria in that Act and in regulations made under that Act;
  2. (b) but such a scheme will not be a qualifying scheme if the only members of that scheme are directors or former directors of the same employer, including at least one third of the current directors of that employer; and31
  3. (c) (in COBS 9.4.11R, COBS 19.1, 34COBS 19.2 and COBS 2134) in addition to the schemes in (a) as qualified by (b), a defined contribution occupational pension scheme that is a qualifying scheme for the purposes of the Pensions Act 2008.31