# The Armed Forces Pension Scheme Order 2005, Paragraph 10: Immediate choice decision: additional requirements


(1) This paragraph applies where the immediate choice decision-maker (“D”) is a person other than the Scheme manager.
(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).
(3) Where—
(a) a remediable service statement has been provided to M in accordance with paragraph 5(2)(a), and
(b) M dies before making an immediate choice decision under paragraph 9,
the section 6 election period is treated as though it had never begun in relation to M.
(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—
(a) information in D’s possession, or
(b) information which D can reasonably be expected to obtain.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/438/schedule/3/paragraph/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-10
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