{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-100",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-100.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/48",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993",
  "path": "section/100",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "100",
  "heading": "Withdrawal of applications.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (2A), a member of a scheme may withdraw an application under section 95 by giving the trustees or managers of the scheme notice in writing that he no longer wishes them to do what is needed to carry out what he previously required.\n(2) Such a notice shall be of no effect if it is given to the trustees or managers at a time when, in order to comply with what the member previously required, they have already entered into an agreement with a third party to use the whole or part of the member’s cash equivalent in a way specified in subsection (2) , subsection (2A) or, as the case may be, subsection (3) of section 95.\n(2A) If the making of the application depended on the giving of a notice under section 101F(1), the application may only be withdrawn if the notice is also withdrawn.\n(3) A member who withdraws an application may make another.\n(4) A notice to the trustees or managers of a scheme under this section is to be taken to have been given if it is delivered to them personally, or sent by post in a registered letter or by recorded delivery service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 100(1) substituted (1.12.2000) by Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), s. 89(1), Sch. 12 para. 38(2); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 100(2) inserted (6.4.2015) by Pension Schemes Act 2015 (c. 8), ss. 68(7), 89(3)(b) (with ss. 68(8)(9), 87)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 100(2A) inserted (1.12.2000) by Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), s. 89(1), Sch. 12 para. 38(3); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 93-101 modified (1.4.1998) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/366), regs. 1, 116-118"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 100 modified (30.12.2005) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Cross-border Activities) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3381), regs. 1, 14, Sch. 2 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Ss. 1-187 in force at 7.2.1994 by S.I. 1994/86, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/48/section/100",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:33.061575+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."
}