{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-appropriate-schemes-regulations-1987/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-appropriate-schemes-regulations-1987/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1109",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Pension Schemes (Appropriate Schemes) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-appropriate-schemes-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Applications for the variation of, and to surrender, appropriate scheme certificates",
  "text": "(1) Every application for the variation of, or to surrender, an appropriate scheme certificate—\n(a) shall be made in writing to the Board by the administrators of the scheme;\n(b) shall be made only after notices of intention to make that application have been given by the administrators in accordance with paragraph (2) except where (in the case of an application for the variation of an appropriate scheme certificate) the board dispense with this requirement; and\n(c) shall include a statement that all notices required by paragraph (2) to be given in relation to that application have been duly given.\n(2) Notices of intention to make an application such as is mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be given in writing to—\n(a) any member of the scheme who has protected rights under it; and\n(b) any earner who, jointly with the trustees or managers of the scheme, has given in relation to the scheme a notice under section 1(9) of the Act which has not been cancelled,\nby sending it to his last known address; and the document comprising the notice may be served by post.\n(3) Notices given under this regulation shall specify—\n(a) the name of the scheme and the address where it is administered;\n(b) the date (being a date consistent with the provisions of regulation 9(5)) from which it is desired that the variation or surrender shall have effect; and\n(c) where the application is to surrender an appropriate scheme certificate, any arrangements made or proposed for the preservation or transfer of protected rights under the scheme.\n(4) Every person who makes an application under this regulation shall supply such other documents and information as the board may reasonably require.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1109/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:24:52.527382+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."
}