{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-implementation-and-discharge-of-liability-regulations-2000/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-implementation-and-discharge-of-liability-regulations-2000/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Funded pension schemes",
  "text": "(1) The circumstances in which the trustees or managers of a scheme, to which paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Act applies, may discharge their liability in respect of a pension credit in accordance with sub-paragraph (2)(b) of that paragraph are where—\n(a) the person entitled to the credit has failed to provide his consent in accordance with paragraph 1(2)(a) and (4) of that Schedule; and\n(b) the circumstances set out in paragraph 1(3) of that Schedule do not apply.\n(2) The circumstances in which the trustees or managers of a scheme, to which paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Act applies, may discharge their liability in respect of a pension credit in accordance with sub-paragraph (3)(c) of that paragraph are where—\n(a) the person entitled to the credit has failed to provide his consent in accordance with paragraph 1(3)(c) of that Schedule; and\n(b) either—\n(i) the person entitled to the pension credit has failed to provide his consent in accordance with paragraph 1(2)(a) and (4) of that Schedule; or\n(ii) the trustees or managers of the scheme have not discharged their liability in accordance with paragraph (1) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(2)(a) substituted (1.12.2000) by The Pension Sharing (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2691), regs. 1, 11(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 7(2)(b) substituted (1.12.2000) by The Pension Sharing (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2691), regs. 1, 11(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2691",
      "affecting_title": "The Pension Sharing (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1053/regulation/7",
    "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."
}