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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-2.F.8",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2008/224",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2.F.8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2.F.8",
  "heading": "Right to apply for acceptance of transfer value payment from another scheme",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Chapter, an active member may apply for a transfer value payment in respect of some or all of the rights that have accrued to or in respect of him or her under any kind of scheme or arrangement to which paragraph (2) applies, other than a FSAVC, to be accepted by the scheme.\n(2) This paragraph applies to–\n(a) a registered occupational pension scheme;\n(b) a registered personal pension scheme;\n(c) a registered buy-out policy; and\n(d) a corresponding health service scheme.\n(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to rights that are directly attributable to a pension credit.\n(4) In this regulation “FSAVC” means–\n(a) a scheme which–\n(i) immediately before 6th April 2006 was approved by the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by virtue of section 591(2)(h) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (free-standing AVC schemes); and\n(ii) became a registered scheme for the purposes of that Act by virtue of Schedule 36 to that Act; or\n(b) a scheme established on or after that date as a registered free-standing AVC scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 591 was repealed by the 2004 Act, Schedule 42, paragraph 1."
    }
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      "affecting": "ssi/2010/22",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Superannuation Scheme, Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
    },
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      "affecting": "ssi/2009/208",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Superannuation Scheme, Pension Scheme and Injury Benefits) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2009"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Superannuation Scheme, Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
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      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Superannuation Scheme, Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/224/regulation/2.F.8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:06:34.390947+00:00"
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  "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."
}