48(3)If a pension plan being wound up in whole permits the payment of surplus to an employer on wind-up of the plan and the existence of surplus is verified by the wind-up report required to be filed under subsection 62(1) of the Act, the administrator may, after the wind-up report is approved by the Superintendent and the administrator establishes the employer’s entitlement to be paid the surplus, apply to the Superintendent for the Superintendent’s consent to pay the surplus to the employer and subsection (1) applies with the necessary modifications.