{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-P8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-P8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/920",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/P8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "P8",
  "heading": "Procedure for applications under regulation P7",
  "text": "(1) An application under regulation P7––\n(a) must be made in writing,\n(b) must specify the scheme or arrangement from which the transfer value payment is to be made and the anticipated amount of the payment, and\n(c) must be made on or before the applicant’s 64th birthday.\n(2) If the application relates to—\n(a) a transfer value payment from a personal pension scheme, or\n(b) a transfer value payment relating only to voluntary contribution rights,\nit must be made before the expiry of the period of 12 months beginning with the relevant date, unless paragraph (3) applies.\n(3) This paragraph applies in the case of a transfer value payment within paragraph (2)(b) (“the relevant payment”) if—\n(a) the applicant is also applying for the Trustees to accept a transfer value payment from a different occupational pension scheme from that by which the relevant payment is payable (the “second scheme”),\n(b) the second scheme relates to the same employment as that to which the scheme by which the relevant payment is payable relates, and\n(c) the transfer value payment payable by the second scheme relates to rights that are or include rights that are not voluntary contribution rights.\n(4) In this regulation—\n“joining date” means the day on which the applicant becomes a participant or, if the person has become a participant more than once, the day on which he last becomes a participant before the application,\n“occupational pension scheme” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993,\n“personal pension scheme” has the meaning given in that section, and\n“relevant date” means the joining date of the applicant or 6th April 2006, whichever is the later, and\n“voluntary contribution rights” means rights under an occupational pension scheme that derive from voluntary contributions made by the applicant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/920/schedule/1/paragraph/P8",
    "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."
}