{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-transfer-values-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-transfer-values-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/619",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-transfer-values-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Schemes with an overseas element",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to schemes with any overseas element, as described in section 161(5) (requirements as to preservation of benefit under occupational pension schemes).\n(2) Where this regulation applies, Chapter IV of Part IV of the Act applies to schemes with any overseas element only to the extent that the requirements specified in or under sections 67 to 78 (the preservation requirements) apply to the scheme.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in operation at 6.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 73 to 76 are repealed by paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and section 78 is amended by paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to that Order"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/619",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2015/164",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/619/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:28.118011+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."
}