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  "title": "The Pension Schemes Act 2015 (Transitional Provisions and Appropriate Independent Advice) Regulations 2015",
  "short_title": "Pension Schemes Act 2015 (Transitional Provisions and Appropriate Independent Advice) 2015",
  "long_title": "These Regulations make provision in relation to the requirement in section 48 of the Pension Schemes Act 2015 (c.8) (“the Act”), that trustees or managers of a pension scheme check that appropriate independent advice has been received by a member or survivor before the trustees or managers can carry out the transactions specified in that section. These Regulations also make provision under section 49 of the Act, specifying circumstances in which an employer must pay for the provision of appropriate independent advice to a member or survivor when this is required by section 48.",
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