{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-159A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-159A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/48",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993",
  "path": "section/159A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "159A",
  "heading": "No forfeiture on bankruptcy of rights under personal pension schemes.",
  "text": "(1) A person’s rights under a personal pension scheme cannot be forfeited by reference to his bankruptcy.\n(2) For the purposes of this section—\n(a) a person shall be treated as having a right under a personal pension scheme where—\n(i) he is entitled to a credit under section 29(1)(b) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (sharing of rights on divorce etc. or on dissolution etc. of a civil partnership),\n(ii) he is so entitled as against the person responsible for the scheme (within the meaning of Chapter I of Part IV of that Act), and\n(iii) the person so responsible has not discharged his liability in respect of the credit; and\n(b) forfeiture shall be taken to include any manner of deprivation or suspension.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 159A inserted (11.11.1999 for specified purposes, 6.4.2002 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), ss. 14(1), 89(5)(a); S.I. 2002/153, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 159A(2)(a)(i) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2053), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 17"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/48/section/159A",
    "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."
}