{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-regulations-2014/schedule/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-regulations-2014/schedule/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2336",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Pension Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Application and Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Chapter applies in relation to—\n(a) a pension credit member (“C”),\n(b) the corresponding pension debit member (“D”), and\n(c) the pension sharing order by virtue of which C became a pension credit member in relation to D’s remediable service (the “relevant pension sharing order”).\n(2) In this Chapter—\n“appropriate amount” means the amount calculated for the purposes of section 29(1) of WRPA 1999;\n“cash equivalent” means an amount calculated in accordance with regulations made under section 30 of WRPA 1999;\n“pension credit account” means a pension credit member account in this scheme or a relevant legacy pension scheme;\n“pension credit member” means a member of this scheme who has rights under the scheme—\n(a)which are attributable (directly or indirectly) to a pension credit,\n(b)which arise by virtue of a pension sharing order with a transfer day on or after 1st April 2015, and\n(c)the value of which is determined (to any extent) by reference to the value of benefits payable in respect of the remediable service of another member;\n“pension debit member” means a member of this scheme with remediable service (whether or not by virtue of section 2(1) of PSPJOA 2022) whose benefits, or future benefits, under the AFPS 2015 fall to be reduced under section 31 of WRPA 1999 (reduction of benefit);\n“pension information” means information provided by the scheme manager under regulations 2, 3 or 4 of the Pensions on Divorce etc. (Provision of Information) Regulations 2000;\n“pension sharing order” means the order or provision by virtue of which section 29 of WRPA 1999 applies in relation to a pension credit member and the corresponding pension debit member;\n“relevant legacy pension scheme” means the AFPS 1975, the AFPS 2005, the RFPS 2005, the FTRS 1997 and the NRPS 2011 pension schemes;\n“remediable relevant benefits” means the benefits or future benefits described in section 29(4) and (5) of WRPA 1999 to which D is entitled by virtue of remediable shareable rights;\n“remediable shareable rights” means D’s shareable rights secured by virtue of D’s remediable service during the period beginning on 1st April 2015 and ending on the earlier of—\n(a)the day before the transfer day, or\n(b)the last day of D’s remediable service;\n“shareable rights” has the meaning in section 27(2) of WRPA 1999;\n“transfer day” means the day on which the relevant pension sharing order takes effect;\n“valuation day” has the meaning given in section 29(7) of WRPA 1999.\n(3) In this Chapter, where the scheme manager is required to determine an amount, this must be done—\n(a) as soon as reasonably practicable;\n(b) having regard to the advice of the scheme actuary.\n(4) In this Chapter, a reference to benefits secured in “this scheme” or the “reformed scheme”, means benefits secured under the rules of this scheme, disregarding the provisions of this Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. inserted (1.10.2023) by The Armed Forces Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/998), reg. 1(b), Sch. 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2336/schedule/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:04:13.886265+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}