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Suspension definition

What does Suspension mean? In construction practice, suspension means a temporary halt to all or part of the works, usually under an express contractual power of the employer (or contract administrator/project manager) to instruct a pause, or by the contractor exercising a right to suspend performance for non‑payment, until a further notice lifts the hold and work recommences. It is a descriptive term used across standard forms (for example, JCT and NEC) rather than a single statutory definition; its legal effect turns on the contract and, for non‑payment, on statute. Key features typically include: formal notice requirements; limits on scope and duration; obligations to secure...

UK trust-based occupational pension schemes: the Pensions Regulator’s powers on trustee suspension, prohibition and statutory disqualification—grounds, procedures and consequences

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Practice notes

THIS PRACTICE NOTE APPLIES TO TRUST-BASED OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEMES

This Practice Note considers the pensions regulator’s (the Regulator’s) powers to suspend or prohibit trustees of occupational pension schemes, and the statutory bases on which an individual or other legal person can be disqualified from acting as a trustee of an occupational pension scheme.

suspension and prohibition orders—reserved regulatory functions of the Regulator

The Regulator’s powers to suspend or prohibit trustees of occupational pension schemes are:

reserved regulatory functions exercised by the Regulator’s Determinations Panel
and therefore subject to the standard procedure or, in special circumstances, the special procedure

As part of the standard procedure, the Regulator must notify those persons who appear to be directly affected by a suspension or prohibition order that such an order is to be made. This will ordinarily include the continuing trustees of the relevant scheme. For further information on the Determinations Panel’s reserved regulatory functions, and on the standard and special procedures, see Practice Note: The Pensions Regulator’s Determinations Panel.

When can the Regulator suspend a trustee?

As noted above, the Regulator may temporarily suspend trustees of trust-based pension schemes from office by issuing suspension orders...

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Wyn Derbyshire

gunnercooke LLP

Wyn is a partner at gunnercooke LLP and specialises in pensions, trust and employment law in all industry sectors, dealing with the transactional, advisory and documentation aspects.He also has wide experience of the pensions implications of heavyweight corporate transactions and flotations, the issues arising from the establishment and merger of pension schemes, and sex equalisation and other discrimination issues in respect of benefits provided by pension schemes. In addition, he provides advice to pension scheme trustees generally.Recent transactions include advising Amcor on pension matters relating to the acquisition of Alcan business and the acquisition of Northern Foods PLC by Boparan Holdings.He is a co-author (with Stephen Hardy and Stephen Maffey) of TUPE: Law and Practice, published by Spiramus Press (now in its 4th edition), and co-author (with Stephen Hardy and David Wicks) of Money & Work, published by Spiramus Press in August 2007. He has also...

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