{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-winding-up-etc-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-winding-up-etc-regulations-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/706",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Winding up etc.) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-winding-up-etc-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Early leaver's rights: deemed election for contribution refund",
  "text": "Where, on the commencement of the winding up period, a member becomes a person to whom Chapter 5 of Part 4 of the 1993 Act applies (early leavers: cash transfer sums and contribution refunds), that Chapter applies as if—\n(a) he had elected on the day on which that period begins for a contribution refund;\n(b) he had accordingly acquired a right to such a refund (and not a right to a cash transfer sum) under section 101AB of that Act; and\n(c) all steps required to be taken under that Chapter preliminary to that election had been taken.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Chapter 5 of Part 4 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 is inserted by section 264 of the Pensions Act 2004."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/706/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:03:51.042635+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."
}