{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-preservation-of-benefit-regulations-1991/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-preservation-of-benefit-regulations-1991/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/167",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Preservation of Benefit) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-preservation-of-benefit-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Alternatives to short service benefit",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 73(2) of the Act, a scheme may, instead of providing short service benefit, provide any of the alternatives to short service benefit described in regulations 8 to 10 below.\n(2) The alternatives described in regulations 8 to 10 may be provided by way of complete or partial substitute for short service benefit, but (except in the cases specifically referred to) only with the member’s consent.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1) substituted (12.5.1994) by The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1062), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 30(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 7(3) omitted (6.4.97) by virtue of S.I. 1996/2131, reg. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 7(4) omitted (6.4.97) by virtue of S.I. 1996/2131, reg. 1, 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/167/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:52:20.523958+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."
}