Regulation 9 Circumstances in which liability to provide pensions under a relevant scheme may be discharged
The trustees of a relevant scheme may discharge any liability to provide pensions under a relevant scheme where the circumstances specified F1in paragraph (2) apply.
The member or, if the member has died, F2the member’s widow, widower or surviving civil partner or, if there is no such person, any person who may be entitled to payment of the pension under the scheme, consents in writing to the discharge of liability and the transaction to discharge the liability—
is to be carried out not earlier than the time when the member’s pensionable service terminates; and
satisfies all the conditions specified in regulation 11.
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Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 9(1) substituted (6.4.2021) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Abolition of Contracting-out for Salary Related Pension Schemes) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/200), arts. 1(5), 35(2)(a)
- F2
Words in reg. 9(2) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Contracted-out Occupational and Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) (Surviving Civil Partners) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2050), art. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 42
- F3
Reg. 9(3) omitted (6.4.2021) by virtue of The Pensions Act 2014 (Abolition of Contracting-out for Salary Related Pension Schemes) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/200), arts. 1(5), 35(2)(b)