{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-13.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/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 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 1985 Regulations), 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 10(1) specified in paragraph 2 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 4(2), 16(6) and 155 specified in paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 of Schedule 2;\n(c) in the case of any transfer payment to an overseas scheme, the modification of section 42 specified in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in operation at 6.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 2A was inserted by regulation 4 of S.R. 1987 No. 277 and amended by S.R. 1994 No. 300"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/618",
      "affecting_title": "The Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/158",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions (2015 Act) (Abolition of Contracting-out for Salary Related Pension Schemes) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/158",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions (2015 Act) (Abolition of Contracting-out for Salary Related Pension Schemes) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/158",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions (2015 Act) (Abolition of Contracting-out for Salary Related Pension Schemes) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/618/regulation/13",
    "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."
}