(a) General. Under the authority of section 103(b)(3)(G) of the Act, a plan whose assets are held in whole or in part in a pooled separate account of an insurance carrier which meets the requirements of paragraph (b) of this section shall include as a part of the annual report required to be filed under § 2520.104a-5 or § 2520.104a-6 the annual statement of assets and liabilities of the pooled separate account for the fiscal year of the account ending with or within the plan year for which the annual report is made, and other information as described in paragraph (c) of this section. Such plan is not required to include in the annual report any information concerning the individual transactions of the pooled separate account. This exemption has no application to assets not held in such a pooled separate account.

(b) Application. This provision applies only to a plan some or all of the assets of which are held in a pooled separate account of an insurance carrier regulated and supervised and subject to periodic examination by a State agency. For purposes of this section, (1) a pooled separate account is an account which consists of the assets of two or more participating entities and is maintained for the collective investment and reinvestment of assets contributed thereto, and (2) plans maintained by a single employer or by members of a controlled group of corporations, as defined in section 1563(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, shall be deemed to be a single participating entity.

(c) Contents.