{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/920",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Leaving the AVC scheme: refunds of contributions, transfers out etc.",
  "text": "In regulation 10 of the AVC Regulations (leaving the AVC scheme)—\n(a) for “Schedule 1A to the Pensions Act 1975” substitute “Chapter 4 of Part 4 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (transfer values)”,\n(b) for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—\n“(a) to apply an amount equal to the value of the contributor’s accrued benefits in such one or more of the ways permitted under section 95 of that Act as the contributor specifies;”,\n(c) in paragraph (c) after “less than two years” insert “and the payment would qualify as a short service refund lump sum for the purposes of section 166(1) of the Finance Act 2004 (lump sum rule) (see paragraph 5 of Schedule 29 to that Act)”, and\n(d) in the second sentence after “by the contributor” insert “and any transfer values accepted under regulation 5(4)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The second sentence of regulation 10 was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to S.I. 2001/2649."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/920/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:33:07.580715+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."
}