Arrange for any superannuation scheme to be established for its employees:

Join with any other employer (whether or not another area health board or an employer in the State services) in arranging for any superannuation scheme to be established for their employees:

Arrange for its employees to become members of any established superannuation scheme:

Provide arrangements in respect of the superannuation of any individual employee.

That the scheme is registered under the Superannuation Schemes Act 1989; and

That the amount of any benefit payable from the scheme to any member of the scheme does not exceed the sum of—

That the trust deed of the scheme defines the rates or amounts (if any) of contributions of the employer or employers and employees, or the basis on which such contributions are to be made; and

That the trust deed of the scheme entitles the area health board to cease contributing to the scheme on behalf of a person if that person ceases to be an employee of the board; and

That the benefits provided by the scheme are fully funded as they accrue; ana

That the scheme enables employee contributors at any time to withdraw from the scheme; and

That the scheme enables persons withdrawing from the scheme to transfer to other superannuation schemes the value (as determined in accordance with the terms of the scheme) of the benefits attributable to that person’s membership of the scheme up to the date of withdrawal; and

That the scheme enables any person who becomes an employee of that area health board, if the board agrees to contribute to the scheme on that person’s behalf, to become a member of the scheme and to transfer to the scheme the value of the benefits attributable to that person’s membership of other superannuation schemes; and

That the trust deed of the scheme does not permit amendments to be made to the scheme which would result in any provision of paragraphs (a) to (h) of this section ceasing to apply to the scheme.