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What does Appointment mean? In legal practice, an appointment is the contract by which a client/employer engages a professional consultant (for example an architect, engineer, quantity surveyor or project manager) and sets the services, fee basis and allocation of risk. The term is descriptive and used across multiple contexts; it is not generally defined by legislation, though particular regulations refer to specific appointments (for example, construction safety roles). An appointment may be executed as a deed or as a simple contract, including by a letter of appointment. In England & Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland this distinction affects limitation (typically around 12 years...

Pension Trustee Appointments, Removals and Substitutions: Deed-Based, Statutory, Pensions Regulator and Court Powers, Procedures, Vesting and MNT Compliance

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FORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT:

On 15 December 2025, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) opened a consultation to assess whether the current powers allowing the Pensions Regulator (TPR) to remove and replace trustees should be added to or reshaped, noting that TPR’s statutory powers to suspend, prohibit or substitute trustees are tightly limited, rarely used and can involve intricate, quasi-judicial procedures. When trustee change is required, TPR typically appoints an independent trustee from its own register, which in practice is made up of a small pool of professional trustee firms and, while effective, can be a costly route, particularly for schemes under pressure or orphan schemes with no trustees in place. Against this backdrop, the consultation considers the viability of a government-appointed public trustee to serve as a secure, independent, last-resort mechanism where trustees need to be appointed or replaced. In addition, where relevant, a scheme must meet legislative duties regarding the appointment of member-nominated trustees or directors. Legislation known as the ‘Member-nominated trustees (MNT) legislation’ requires that at least one-third of trustees are member-nominated (or at least one-third of directors are member-nominated directors) and overrides scheme rules or a trustee company’s articles of association where they conflict with that requirement...

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