{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-scheme-tax-regulations-2010/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-scheme-tax-regulations-2010/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/1187",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Assistance Scheme (Tax) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-scheme-tax-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Entitlement to assistance from the FAS",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, an individual becomes entitled to—\n(a) assistance from the FAS when that individual first acquires an actual (rather than a prospective) right to receive that assistance and the amount of that assistance has been determined by the FAS scheme manager; and\n(b) a lump sum under regulation 17D immediately before the individual becomes entitled to the non-lump sum assistance to which the lump sum relates.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7(1) omitted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 27(11)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 7(3)-(7) omitted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 27(11)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 7 heading substituted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 27(11)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 1.5.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1187/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:43:16.593087+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."
}