{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-personal-pension-protected-rights-premiums-regulations-1987/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-personal-pension-protected-rights-premiums-regulations-1987/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1111",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Pension Schemes (Personal Pension Protected Rights Premiums) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-personal-pension-protected-rights-premiums-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Liability for payment of a premium",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 5(7) of the Act (liability to pay a premium to the Secretary of State) the prescribed person is—\n(a) in a case where the circumstances specified in regulation 6(7)(a) and (c) obtain, the person to whom the cash sum mentioned in regulation 6(7)(c) has been paid; and\n(b) in any other case, the trustees of the scheme.\n(2) Where an appropriate scheme ceases to be appropriate, the Board shall certify to the Secretary of State whether or not protected rights under the scheme are subject to approved arrangements as mentioned in section 5 of the Act.\n(3) Where protected rights which were subject to approved arrangements as mentioned in section 5 of the Act have ceased to be so subject, the Board shall certify to the Secretary of State the date on which those rights ceased to be so subject.\n(4) Any liability for the payment of a premium which is, by any provision of these regulations, imposed on the trustees of a scheme shall be a liability to make that payment out of the resources of the scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1062",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1062",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1111/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:24:50.931648+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."
}