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  "title": "The Pension Schemes (Transfers, Reorganisations and Winding Up) (Transitional Provisions) Order 2006",
  "short_title": "Pension Schemes (Transfers, Reorganisations and Winding Up) (Transitional Provisions) 2006",
  "long_title": "Part 4 of the Finance Act 2004 (c. 12) makes new provision for pension schemes on and after 6th April 2006. Schedule 36 to that Act, which falls within Part 4, contains transitional provisions and savings, designed to protect rights which existed before 6th April 2006. The general principles are that rights are protected in the scheme under which they were held on 5th April 2006, and that protection is lost if the individual's rights are transferred out of the scheme on or after 6th April 2006; but some protection may be retained if, on or after 6th April 2006, an individual's rights are transferred out of the original pension scheme as part of a block transfer.",
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