{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-97C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-97C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/48",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993",
  "path": "section/97C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "97C",
  "heading": "Reduction of cash equivalents in case of designated schemes",
  "text": "(1) The Treasury may by regulations provide that where, under section 95(1), a member of a designated scheme requires the trustees or managers to use a cash equivalent for acquiring a right or entitlement to flexible benefits under the rules of another pension scheme the cash equivalent must be reduced by an amount determined in accordance with the regulations.\n(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may not require a reduction in cases where a scheme ceases to be a designated scheme before the date on which the trustees or managers do what is needed to carry out what the member requires.\n(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may produce the result (alone or in conjunction with regulations under section 97) that the amount by which a cash equivalent is to be reduced is such an amount that a member has no right to receive anything.\n(4) In subsection (1), “designated scheme” means a funded public service defined benefits scheme, or part of such a scheme, that (on the date of the application under section 95(1)) is designated under section 97A or 97B.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 97C inserted (3.3.2015 for specified purposes, 6.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Pension Schemes Act 2015 (c. 8), ss. 69(4), 89(1)(b)(3)(b) (with s. 87)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/48/section/97C",
    "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."
}