Revised Retirement Plan for Employees of the Allen-Bradley Division of Rockwell International of Canada (now The Pension Plan for Employees of Rockwell Automation Canada Inc.), 0321554 ("Allen Bradley Plan")

Pension Plan for Salaried and Management Employees of Reliance Electric Limited, Registration Number 0292946 ("Reliance Plan")

06/07/1999 (pre-hearing conference (PHC)); 20/01/2005 (PHC); 02/05/2005 (pre-hearing cont'd by teleconference); 16/06/2005 (pre-hearing cont'd by teleconference); 11/07/2005 (cont'd by teleconference); 9/11/2005 (cont'd by teleconference); 16/11/2005 (Hearing - adjourned); 21/11/2005 (Hearing cont'd); 22/11/2005 (Hearing - did not proceed)

On May 18, 1999, certain members (the “Applicants”) of the Pension Plan for Salaried and Management Employees of Reliance Electric Limited (the “Reliance Plan”) requested a hearing regarding a decision of the Director of the Pension Plans Branch of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, dated March 30, 1999, acting under delegated authority from the Superintendent of Financial Services (the “Superintendent”), to consent to the transfer of assets from the Reliance Plan to the Revised Retirement Plan for Employees of the Allen-Bradley Division of Rockwell International of Canada (the “Rockwell Plan”).

On June 2, 1999, an application for party status was filed by Rockwell Automation Canada Inc. 

• At the pre-hearing conference on July 6, 1999 full party status was granted.  The matter was then adjourned sine die as the Applicants indicated that an application would be made to the Superintendent requesting a wind up of the Reliance Plan and all parties agreed that it would be premature to proceed in this matter until the Superintendent has made a decision respecting the request for wind up.  By letter of September 14, 2000, the request for wind up was denied.
  
  
• The pre-hearing conference resumed on January 20, 2005, and subsequently continued on May 2, June 16, July 11 and November 9, 2005.  The hearing was scheduled to proceed on November 16, and continue on November 21 and 22, 2005.  On November 15, 2005, the Applicants requested an adjournment to November 21, 2005, on consent of all parties.  That request was granted.  The hearing was held on November 21, 2005.  In a decision dated February 20, 2006, the Tribunal upheld the decision of the Superintendent to consent to the transfer of assets from the Reliance Plan to the Rockwell Plan.  The Reasons for Decision were published in Volume 15, Issue 1 of the Pension Bulletin.
  

• On March 8, 2006, a Notice of Appeal was filed by Michael Lennon, on behalf of the members of the Reliance Plan, with the Ontario Divisional Court.

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