{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-pension-credit-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-pension-credit-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/146",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Sharing (Pension Credit Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-pension-credit-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Transfer payments in respect of safeguarded rights—general",
  "text": "(1) A transfer of liability from—\n(a) a salary related contracted-out scheme (or a scheme which has ceased to be a salary related contracted-out scheme), or\n(b) a money purchase contracted-out scheme or an appropriate scheme (or a scheme which has ceased to be a money purchase contracted-out scheme or an appropriate scheme),\nmay give effect to the safeguarded rights of a person entitled to a pension credit by the making of a transfer payment to a scheme referred to in paragraph (2).\n(2) A transfer payment in respect of safeguarded rights may be made to—\n(a) an appropriate scheme;\n(b) a money purchase contracted-out scheme;\n(c) a salary related contracted-out scheme;\n(d) a personal pension scheme which has ceased to be an appropriate scheme, or\n(e) an occupational pension scheme which has ceased to be contracted-out,\nin accordance with regulations 17 to 19 and no such transfer may be made otherwise.\n(3) In this regulation and in regulations 17 to 19 a “transfer payment” means a transfer payment such as is described in this regulation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in operation at 1.12.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/146",
      "affecting_title": "The Pension Sharing (Pension Credit Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2009/113",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions (2008 Acts) (Consequential Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/146/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:46.471802+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."
}