The Pensions Regulator is to prosecute Samuel Smith Old Brewery and company chairman Humphrey Smith for failing to provide information and documents required for an ongoing investigation.
The pensions watchdog sought details of the Tadcaster-based brewery’s finances in order to understand the funding position of some of the business’s pension schemes.
The company failed to comply with a notice issued under section 72 of the Pensions Act 2004 on January 12 2018, requiring the docouments and information to be provided by Januray 26 2018.
Samuel Smith Old Brewery and chairman Humphrey Smith have been summonsed to appear at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on May 15 2018.
They will each face a charge of neglecting or refusing to provide information and documents, without a reasonable excuse, when required to do so under section 72 of the Pensions Act 2004.
Humphrey Smith is charged on the basis that the offence by the company was committed with his consent or connivance or by his neglect.
