{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-pensions-guidance-regulations-2016/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-pensions-guidance-regulations-2016/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/590",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Pensions Guidance) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-pensions-guidance-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2000 Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n“the 2004 Act” means the Finance Act 2004;\n“pension scheme” means—\n(a) a scheme that is a registered pension scheme for the purposes of Part 4 of the 2004 Act;\n(b) a scheme that would have been treated as becoming a registered pension scheme on 6th April 2006—\n(i) had it not been wound up before that date; or\n(ii) if the relevant administrator had not notified Revenue and Customs under paragraph 2 of Schedule 36 (opting out of deemed registration) to the 2004 Act that the pension scheme was not to become a registered pension scheme on that date;\n“primary beneficiary” means—\n(a) a person who is in receipt of payments under an annuity; or\n(b) a person who has a right to payments at a future date under an annuity;\n“relevant administrator” has the meaning given in paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 36 to the 2004 Act;\n“secondary beneficiary” means a person with a right to payments under an annuity that is contingent on the death of the primary beneficiary, whether or not that right is subject to the discretion of another person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c.12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 150(2) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 36 to, the 2004 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/590/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:23:23.643581+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."
}