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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-assistance-scheme-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2008/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110814063",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Assistance Scheme (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-assistance-scheme-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Transitional provision",
  "text": "The FAS Regulations and section 18 of the Pensions Act 2007 shall continue to have effect as if these Regulations had not come into force where—\n(a) a beneficiary has, before the date on which these Regulations come into force, received a monthly instalment of an annual payment or an initial payment;\n(b) the date from which the beneficiary would be entitled to an annual payment or an initial payment would not change under these Regulations; and\n(c) the beneficiary would be entitled to a higher annual payment or higher initial payment if these Regulations had not come into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110814063/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:16:33.507540+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."
}