{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-compensation-regulations-2005/regulation-25A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-compensation-regulations-2005/regulation-25A.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/25A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25A",
  "heading": "Cash balance schemes: modification of Schedule 7 to the Act",
  "text": "(1) In its application to a cash balance scheme, paragraph 37 of Schedule 7 to the Act (other definitions) applies as if, after sub-paragraph (4) there were inserted—\n“(5) In this Schedule references to a lump sum to which a person is entitled, or which a person has been paid, by reason of commuting part of a pension under the scheme include any lump sum to which the person is entitled, or which the person has been paid, by reason of opting to receive a lump sum instead of a pension, or part of a pension, in respect of cash balance benefits under the scheme.”.\n(2) In its application to a cash balance scheme other than a scheme to which regulation 25 applies, paragraph 37(1) of Schedule 7 to the Act applies as if, before the definition of “deferred member” there were inserted—\n““cash balance benefit” has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the Pensions Act 2011 (Transitional, Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2014;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 25A inserted (6.4.2016) by The Pension Protection Fund and Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/294), regs. 1, 4(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/670/regulation/25A",
    "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."
}