{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-transfers-reorganisations-and-winding-up-transitional-provisions-order-2006/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-transfers-reorganisations-and-winding-up-transitional-provisions-order-2006/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/573",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Schemes (Transfers, Reorganisations and Winding Up) (Transitional Provisions) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-transfers-reorganisations-and-winding-up-transitional-provisions-order-2006",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Rights to take benefit before normal minimum pension age",
  "text": "The employee has the right to retire—\n(a) at the age at which, immediately before the transfer mentioned in article 10(2), the employee had the right to retire under the original pension scheme, or\n(b) at the age at which, on 6th April 2006, the employee has the right to retire under the new pension scheme,\nwhichever is the greater.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/573/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:35:55.415091+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."
}