{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-information-powers-regulations-2000/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-information-powers-regulations-2000/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2316",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Pension Schemes (Information Powers) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-information-powers-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Annuity contracts",
  "text": "(1) The Board may by notice require any of the persons prescribed by paragraph (2), within the time prescribed by paragraph (3), to furnish to the Board such particulars, and to produce to the Board such documents, as they may reasonably require relating to any annuity contract issued by that person by means of which benefits provided under an approved personal pension scheme or under approved personal pension arrangements made in accordance with that scheme have been secured.\n(2) The persons prescribed are—\n(a) the insurance company which issued the annuity contract, where that company is a body corporate;\n(b) the chief executive and the manager, within the meaning of section 96D of the Insurance Companies Act 1982, of the insurance company which issued the annuity contract;\n(c) the person referred to in section 659B(6) or (8);\n(d) the friendly society which issued the annuity contract, where that friendly society is a society incorporated under the Friendly Societies Act 1992;\n(e) the chief executive and the secretary, any assistant chief executive and deputy chief executive, and any assistant secretary and deputy secretary, of the friendly society which issued the annuity contract.\n(3) The time prescribed is such time (not being less than 28 days) as is provided by the notice.\n(4) A notice under paragraph (1) may require particulars and documents relating to more than one annuity contract.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1982 c. 50; section 96D was inserted by S.I. 1994/1696, regulation 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3629",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments) (Taxes) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2316/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:34:35.545433+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."
}