{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-2008-no-2-act-abolition-of-protected-rights-consequential-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-2008-no-2-act-abolition-of-protected-rights-consequential-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/124",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (2008 No. 2 Act) (Abolition of Protected Rights) (Consequential Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-2008-no-2-act-abolition-of-protected-rights-consequential-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Pension Protection Fund (General and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Pension Protection Fund (General and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).\n(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) omit the definition of “appropriate personal pension scheme”.\n(3) In regulation 7 (manner of discharge of liabilities in respect of money purchase benefits)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) omit “(or in the case of protected rights, given effect to)”;\n(ii) for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(a) a transfer payment to a personal pension scheme or an occupational pension scheme;”;\n(b) omit paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(4) In regulation 8 (further provision for discharge of liabilities in respect of money purchase benefits) for paragraph (5) substitute—\n“(5) Where the money purchase beneficiary dies before the Board discharges those liabilities in relation to that beneficiary, the Board shall discharge those liabilities—\n(a) where there is a widow, widower or surviving civil partner, under the rules of the scheme within the limits specified in regulation 7(1), or\n(b) where there is no widow, widower or surviving civil partner, in accordance with paragraph 15 of Schedule 29 to the 2004 Act (uncrystallised funds lump sum death benefit).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2006 No. 155 to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/124/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:16:45.943759+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."
}