Solvency Funding Relief Regulations, 2009

5 (1) Despite subsection 9(4) of the Pension Benefits Standards Regulations, 1985 and section 13 of the Air Canada Pension Plan Solvency Deficiency Funding Regulations, a solvency deficiency, as defined in subsection 9(1) of the Pension Benefits Standards Regulations, 1985, of a plan that emerged at the end of the 2008 plan year may be funded in accordance with section 9 of those Regulations but the remittance to the pension fund of a portion of the special payments determined in accordance with those Regulations may be made in accordance with subsection (2) or (3), as the case may be.

(2) If the actuarial report that values the plan as at the end of the 2008 plan year indicates that there is a 2008 solvency deficiency and that there is a solvency deficiency as defined in subsection 9(1) of the Pension Benefits Standards Regulations, 1985, a portion of the special payments determined in accordance with subsection 9(4) of those Regulations or section 13 of the Air Canada Pension Plan Solvency Deficiency Funding Regulations may be paid to the pension fund as if the 2008 solvency deficiency were funded by special payments sufficient to liquidate the 2008 solvency deficiency by equal annual payments over a period not exceeding 10 years from the day on which the 2008 solvency deficiency emerged.

(3) If the actuarial report that values the plan as at the end of the 2008 plan year indicates that there is no 2008 solvency deficiency but that there is a solvency deficiency as defined in subsection 9(1) of the Pension Benefits Standards Regulations, 1985, the special payments determined in accordance with subsection 9(4) of those Regulations or section 13 of the Air Canada Pension Plan Solvency Deficiency Funding Regulations may be paid to the pension fund provided that those special payments result in the solvency shortfall being funded and liquidated over a period not exceeding 10 years from the day on which the solvency shortfall was calculated.

(4) For the purposes of subsection 8(1) of the Act, if the 2008 solvency deficiency or solvency shortfall, as the case may be, is calculated by valuing the assets of a plan in excess of 110% of market value as at the date on which the valuation that identified the 2008 solvency deficiency or solvency shortfall was performed, the amount by which the aggregate amount of special payments calculated using a value of assets equal to 110% of market value on that date exceeds the aggregate amount of special payments calculated using a value of assets in excess of 110% of market value on that date shall be considered to be an amount accrued to the pension fund.

(5) The amount that was accrued as a result of subsection (4) is considered to have been paid to the plan at the end of the fifth plan year after the end of the 2009 plan year by special payments that have been calculated in accordance with these Regulations and section 9 of the Pension Benefits Standards Regulations, 1985 provided that all those payments have been made to the fund by the end of that plan year.

(6) If the funding is for a deficiency of a multi-employer pension plan and if the annual amount of the payments required to be made to the pension fund in accordance with subsection (2) or (3), as the case may be, is less than the aggregate amount of the payments that are required to be made to the pension fund, excluding the normal cost and the special payments required to liquidate an unfunded liability, under all applicable collective agreements, the amount of the payments required to be made to the pension fund in accordance with subsection (2) or (3), as the case may be, shall be the aggregate amount of the payments required to be made to the pension fund under all applicable collective agreements and subsection (4) shall not apply.