{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993/section-97AH",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993/section-97AH.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/49",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993",
  "path": "section/97AH",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "97AH",
  "heading": "Powers of trustees or managers where right not exercised",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where—\n(a) a member of an occupational pension scheme does not exercise a right acquired by him under section 97AB on or before the reply date or such later date as the trustees or managers of the scheme allow in his case under section 97AI(2), and\n(b) the trustees or managers of the scheme have notified the member as mentioned in section 97AC(5).\n(2) The trustees or managers may within a reasonable period beginning with—\n(a) the reply date, or\n(b) if a later date has been allowed as mentioned in subsection (1), that later date,\npay the contribution refund to the member.\n(3) When the trustees or managers have paid the contribution refund to the member—\n(a) they are discharged from any obligation in respect of any rights (including conditional rights) of, or in respect of, the member to relevant benefits under the applicable rules, and\n(b) if they are required under the applicable rules, or determine in accordance with those rules, to make any payment ( “the refund payment”) by way of refund to or in respect of the member of, or in respect of—\n(i) the contributions, or any payment, mentioned in section 97AB(4), or\n(ii) any other contributions made to the scheme, or any other scheme, in respect of the member (other than any pension credit or amount attributable (directly or indirectly) to a pension credit),\nthe amount of the contribution refund may be set off against the refund payment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4 Ch. 5 inserted (1.1.2006 for specified purposes, 6.4.2006 in so far as not already in force) by The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)), arts. 1(2), 241 (with art. 285(5)); S.R. 2005/543, art. 2(5), Sch. Pt. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 4ZA Ch. 2: power to modify conferred (11.2.2021 for specified purposes, 1.8.2022 in so far as not already in force) by Pension Schemes Act 2021 (c. 1), s. 131(1)(3)(a), Sch. 5 para. 1(6)(b); S.R. 2022/197, art. 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/49/section/97AH",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:31.493981+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."
}