{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/438",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Pension Scheme Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Immediate choice decision: additional requirements",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where the immediate choice decision-maker (“D”) is a person other than the Scheme manager.\n(2) An immediate choice decision may not be made unless a remediable service statement has been provided to D in accordance with paragraph 5(2)(a), or, where paragraph (3) applies, in accordance with paragraph 5(3).\n(3) Where—\n(a) a remediable service statement has been provided to M in accordance with paragraph 5(2)(a), and\n(b) M dies before making an immediate choice decision under paragraph 9,\nthe section 6 election period is treated as though it had never begun in relation to M.\n(4) An immediate choice decision is to be treated as having been made only if D provides the information specified in any written request from the Scheme manager that is—\n(a) information in D’s possession, or\n(b) information which D can reasonably be expected to obtain.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 inserted (1.10.2023) by The Armed Forces Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/998), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/438/schedule/3/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:08:49.366834+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."
}