{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-transfer-payments-regulations-1988/regulation-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1014",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Pension Schemes (Transfer Payments) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-transfer-payments-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Requirements as to the application of transfer payments",
  "text": "Where the administrator of a personal pension scheme, having taken all reasonable steps, is satisfied that there is no surviving spouse to whom an annuity referred to in regulation 8(2)(a) can be paid, the whole of the accumulated value may be paid as a lump sum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1014/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:05:27.703657+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."
}