{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/618",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Transfer payments to money purchase contracted-out schemes and appropriate personal pension schemes in respect of section 5(2B) rights",
  "text": "A transfer payment in respect of an earner’s accrued section 5(2B) rights may be made to a money purchase contracted-out scheme or an appropriate personal pension scheme if—\n(a) the earner consents in writing;\n(b) the transfer payment is to a money purchase contracted-out scheme, the earner—\n(i) is employed by an employer who is a contributor to the receiving scheme, or\n(ii) has previously been a member of the receiving scheme, and\n(c) the transfer payment is applied so as to provide money purchase benefits under the receiving scheme for, or in respect of, the earner.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in operation at 6.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/618",
      "affecting_title": "The Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/120",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions (2008 Act) (Abolition of Contracting-out for Defined Contribution Pension Schemes) (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/107",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Schemes that were Contracted-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/618/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:29.084427+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."
}