{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-scheme-regulations-2005/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-scheme-regulations-2005/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1986",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Assistance Scheme Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-scheme-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Payments where amounts relating to money purchase benefits are transferred to the Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), where the property transferred to the Secretary of State under section 161 (as modified by Schedule 1 to these Regulations) includes property representing the value of rights in respect of money purchase benefits under the scheme rules, the scheme manager must make arrangements to facilitate a payment or payments to be made to any person in respect of whom the qualifying pension scheme held the assets.\n(2) The scheme manager must be satisfied that the arrangement made under paragraph (1) is made in respect of the full value of the assets transferred as at the date the arrangement is made.\n(3) Where the person in respect of whom the assets were held has died, the arrangement under paragraph (1) shall be made in respect of the estate of the deceased person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pts. 7, 8, 9 inserted (2.4.2010) by The Financial Assistance Scheme (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1149), regs. 1, 14, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1986/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:55:48.068452+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."
}