{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-6.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": "schedule/1/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The date of commencement of the pension the liability for which is transferred—\n(a) if the pension is payable to the person who has become entitled to it, must be the date from which liability for payment is assumed by the receiving scheme; and\n(b) if the pension is payable to the widow, widower or surviving civil partner of that person, must be the same as it would have been under the provisions of the transferring scheme.\n(2) The receiving scheme must contain the same provision (if any) for suspension and forfeiture of that pension as for guaranteed minimum pensions provided by the receiving scheme in accordance with section 13 or (as the case may be) 17 of the 1993 Act.\n(3) The receiving scheme must provide for the payment of guaranteed minimum pensions to or in respect of a person who has become entitled to them at a rate that is no lower than the rate at which they would have been paid by the transferring scheme, taking into account any increases to the rate which are required by virtue of section 109 of the 1993 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 6 substituted (6.4.2018) by The Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/234), regs. 1, 2(7)(c)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1462/schedule/1/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}