Notices under the Trustee Act 1925
MALLETT RETIREMENT BENEFITS SCHEME AND THE STANLEY GIBBONS HOLDINGS PLC PENSION AND ASSURANCE SCHEME
Notice is hereby given pursuant to section 27 of the Trustee Act 1925 that the trustee of the Mallett Retirement Benefits Scheme and the Stanley Gibbons Holdings plc Pension and Assurance Scheme (the Schemes) are intending to distribute the Schemes' assets in accordance with the Schemes' governing documentation, the rules of the Pension Protection Fund (the PPF) and overriding law. It is intended that this will be achieved by the transfer of members' defined benefits into the PPF if the PPF assumes responsibility for the Schemes.
The following individuals are requested to write to the Trustee of the Mallett Retirement Benefit Scheme / Stanley Gibbons Holdings plc Pension and Assurance Scheme, c/o Spence and Partners Limited, Linen Loft, 27-37 Adelaide Street, Belfast, BT2 8FE on or before 21 November 2024:
• any employee or former employee of Stanley Gibbons Limited, Stanley Gibbons International Limited, Milsom Street Limited (formerly known as Mallett & Son (Antiques) Limited) or any other company within the Stanley Gibbons corporate group, who believes that they were a member of either Scheme and who is not already receiving a pension in respect of their membership of that Scheme and has not received any correspondence from the Trustee within the last 12 months;
• any former member of either Scheme with pensionable service after May 1990 and who transferred out or received a one-off lump sum payment.
• any person who believes themselves to be a beneficiary of either Scheme as the widow, widower, civil partner or dependant of a deceased member of that Scheme; and
• any other person who believes they have a claim against, or an interest in, either Scheme.
Claimants should provide their full name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and details of when they were Scheme members.
Claimants need not write if they have received correspondence from the trustee within the last 12 months.
After 21 November 2024, the Trustee will proceed to deal with the Schemes' assets among the persons entitled to them, having regard only (subject to the discretion of the PPF) to the claims and interests of which they have prior notice and in relation to the assets used for such distribution, the Trustee will not be liable to any person or persons for a claim of which they do not have notice.
Open Trustees Limited, sole trustee of the Mallett Retirement Benefit Scheme and the Stanley Gibbons Holdings plc Pension and Assurance Scheme
21 August 2024