{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-implementation-and-discharge-of-liability-regulations-2000/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-implementation-and-discharge-of-liability-regulations-2000/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1053",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Sharing (Implementation and Discharge of Liability) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-implementation-and-discharge-of-liability-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Qualifying arrangements",
  "text": "(1) The requirements referred to in paragraph 6(2)(b) of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Act (requirements applying to annuity contracts or policies of insurance for the purpose of sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph) are that the annuity contract is entered into or the insurance policy is taken out with an insurance company which is—\n(a) a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurance; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Paragraph (1)(a) ... must be read with—\n(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n(b) any relevant order under that section; and\n(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 11(1)(a)(b) substituted (1.12.2001) for reg. 11(1)(a)-(c) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3649), arts. 1, 591(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 11(1)(b) and word omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/192), regs. 1, 13(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 11(2) substituted (1.12.2001) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3649), arts. 1, 591(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/192), regs. 1, 13(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1053/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:32.132176+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."
}