{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-1996/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-1996/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1462",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Modifications of Part III of the 1993 Act on transfers from policies of insurance or annuity contracts",
  "text": "Where a transfer to a scheme that was a salary-related contracted-out scheme, or a transfer payment to an overseas scheme, in respect of an earner’s accrued rights to guaranteed minimum pensions has taken place from an appropriate policy in accordance with regulation 3 or 6 (or with regulation 2A of the Contracting-out (Transfer) Regulations 1985), the 1993 Act shall have effect subject to the following modifications—\n(a) where the earner was in employment which was contracted-out by reference to the receiving scheme, the modification of section 14(1) specified in paragraph 7 of Schedule 2;\n(b) where the earner was in employment which was not contracted-out by reference to the receiving scheme, the modifications of sections 8(2), 20(6) and 159 specified in paragraphs 5, 6 and 8 of Schedule 2;\n(c) in the case of any transfer payment to an overseas scheme, the modification of section 46 specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13 inserted (6.4.2016) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Abolition of Contracting-out for Salary Related Pension Schemes) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/200), arts. 1(2), 4(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 13(a) omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Pensions Act 2014 (Abolition of Contracting-out for Salary Related Pension Schemes) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/200), arts. 1(2), 4(9)(b) (with art. 5(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13(b) omitted (6.4.2016) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Abolition of Contracting-out for Salary Related Pension Schemes) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/200), arts. 1(2), 4(9)(c) (with art. 5(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(b) substituted (6.4.1997) by The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/786), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 7(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1462/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:33.102286+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."
}