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 92 STAT. 2786

PUBLIC LAW 95-600—NOV. 6, 1978 tion (a) merely because the plan includes a qualified cash or deferred arrangement. "(2) QUALIFIED CASH OR DEFERRED ARRANGEMENT.—A qualified

cash or deferred arrangement is any arrangement which is part of a profit-sharing or stock bonus plan which meets the requirements of subsection (a)— "(A) under which a covered employee may elect to have the employer make payments as contributions to a trust under the plan on behalf of the employee, or to the employee directly in cash; "(B) under which amounts held by the trust which are attributable to employer contributions made pursuant to the employee's election may not be distributable to participants or other beneficiaries earlier than upon retirement, death, disability, or separation from service, hardship or the attainment of age 59 ¥2, and will not be distributable merely by reason of the completion of a stated period of participation or the lapse of a fixed number of years; and "(C) which provides that an employee's right to his accrued benefit derived from employer contributions made to the trust pursuant to his election are nonforfeitable. "(3) APPLICATION STANDARDS.—

26 USC 410.

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PARTICIPATION

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"(A) A qualified cash or deferred arrangement shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of subsection (a)(4), with respect to the amount of contributions, and of subparagraph (B) of section 410(b)(1) for a plan year if those employees eligible to benefit under the plan satisfy the provisions of subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 410(b)(1) and if the actual deferral percentage for highly compensated employees (as defined in paragraph (4)) for such plan year bears a relationship to the actual deferral percentage for all other eligible employees for such plan year which meets either of the following tests: "(i) The actual deferral percentage for the group of highly compensated employees is not more than the actual deferral percentage of all other eligible employees multiplied by 1.5. "(ii) The excess of the actual deferral percentage for the group of highly compensated employees over that of all other eligible employees is not more than 3 percentage points, and the actual deferral percentage for the group of highly compensated employees is not more than the actual deferral percentage of all other eligible employees multiplied by 2.5. "(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the actual deferral percentage for a specified group of employees for a plan year shall be the average of the ratios (calculated separately for each employee in such group) of— "(i) the amount of employer contributions actually paid over to the trust on behalf of each such employee for such plan year, to "(ii) the employee's compensation for such plan year. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the compensation of any employee for a plan year shall be the amount of his compensation which is taken into account under the plan in calculating the contribution which may be made on his behalf for such plan year.

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