{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-compensation-regulations-2005/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-compensation-regulations-2005/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/670",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Protection Fund (Compensation) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-compensation-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Special provision in relation to pensions in payment following early retirement",
  "text": "(1) Where immediately before the assessment date—\n(a) a person is entitled to present payment of a pension under the scheme rules;\n(b) the scheme rules provide that the award of that pension is dependent on—\n(i) that person having attained early retirement age; and\n(ii) the consent of—\n(aa) the trustees or managers; or\n(bb) the employer; and\n(c) the effect of disregarding rules within paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 35(2) of Schedule 7 to the Act (scheme rules, admissible rules etc) is that the person is not entitled to compensation under paragraph 3(2) by reason of the pension or a part of the pension,\nparagraphs (2) and (3) shall apply.\n(2) Where in the opinion of the trustees or managers—\n(a) the trustees or managers; or\n(b) the employer,\nwould have consented to the award of a pension to that person under the admissible rules of the scheme prior to the assessment date, they must notify the Board in that respect.\n(3) Where the Board receives a notice under paragraph (2) that person shall be treated, for the purposes of the pension compensation provisions, as entitled, immediately before the assessment date, to present payment of a pension under the admissible rules.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 10(1)(b)(ii)(bb) inserted (30.4.2013) by The Pension Protection Fund, Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/627), regs. 1(1), 3(7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/670/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:04:17.207561+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."
}