{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-schemepension-sharing-on-divorce-regulations-2000/schedule/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-schemepension-sharing-on-divorce-regulations-2000/schedule/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3025",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme(Pension Sharing on Divorce) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-schemepension-sharing-on-divorce-regulations-2000",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Schedule 1A: Definitions for pension sharing on divorce",
  "text": "After Schedule 1, insert the following Schedule—\n“SCHEDULE 1A\nINTERPRETATION FOR PENSION SHARING ON DIVORCE\nRegulation 2(1)\nIn these Regulations—\n“the 1999 Act” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999;\n“normal benefit age” means 65;\n“pension credit” means a credit under section 29(1)(b) of the 1999 Act or corresponding Northern Ireland legislation;\n“pension credit benefits” means benefits payable under the Scheme to or in respect of a pension credit member by virtue of rights under the Scheme attributable to a pension credit;\n“pension credit member” means a person who has pension credit rights or benefits under the Scheme;\n“pension credit rights” means rights to future benefits under the Scheme which are attributable to a pension credit;\n“pension debit” means a debit under section 29(1)(a) of the 1999 Act or corresponding Northern Ireland legislation;\n“pension debit member” means a member, whether an active member, a deferred member or a pensioner member, whose shareable rights under the Scheme are subject to a pension debit;\n“pension sharing order” in relation to a pension credit member, a pension debit member, a person entitled to a pension credit or pension credit rights means the order or provision by virtue of which section 29 of the 1999 Act takes effect;\n“shareable rights” has the same meaning as in section 27(2) of the 1999 Act;\n“transfer date” in relation to a pension credit member and pension credit rights means the day on which the pension sharing order takes effect;\n“transferor” in relation to a pension credit member or a person entitled to a pension credit means the person to whose shareable rights the pension sharing order relates.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3025/schedule/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:10:50.114385+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."
}