Regulation 7 Amendment of the Protected Rights (Transfer Payment) Regulations

after the definition of “appropriate personal pension scheme” insert—

• ““EEA agreement” means the agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992, together with the Protocol adjusting that Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993, as modified or supplemented from time to time;

• “EEA state”, in relation to any time, means—

  1. (a)

     a state which at that time is a member State, or

  2. (b)

     any other state which at that time is a party to the EEA agreement;”;

in the definition of “overseas scheme”^f2 for “member States”, in both places where it occurs, substitute “EEA states”.