{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011-transfer-of-accrued-pension-rights-order-2012/schedule-4/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011-transfer-of-accrued-pension-rights-order-2012/schedule-4/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/687",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Services Act 2011 (Transfer of Accrued Pension Rights) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011-transfer-of-accrued-pension-rights-order-2012",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The provisions of the 1993 Act referred to in paragraph 12 are—\n(a) section 12C (Transfer, commutation, etc);\n(b) section 12D (Entitlement to benefit);\n(c) section 13 (Minimum pensions for earners);\n(d) section 14 (Earner’s guaranteed minimum);\n(e) section 15 (Increase of guaranteed minimum where commencement of guaranteed minimum pension postponed);\n(f) section 15A (Reduction of guaranteed minimum in consequence of pension debit);\n(g) section 16 (Revaluation of earnings factors for purposes of s 14: early leavers etc);\n(h) section 17 (Minimum pensions for widows and widowers);\n(i) section 18 (Treatment of insignificant amounts);\n(j) section 19 (Discharge of liability where guaranteed minimum pensions secured by insurance policies or annuity contracts);\n(k) section 20 (Transfer of accrued rights);\n(l) section 21 (Commutation, surrender and forfeiture);\n(m) section 23(7) (Securing of benefits);\n(n) section 24A (Conversion of guaranteed minimum pension into other benefits: introduction );\n(o) section 24B (The conversion conditions);\n(p) section 24C (Actuarial equivalence);\n(q) section 24D (Survivors’ benefits);\n(r) section 24E(1), (3) and (4) (Procedural requirements);\n(s) section 24F (Transfer out);\n(t) section 24G (Powers to amend schemes);\n(u) section 24H (Enforcement of GMP conversion conditions);\n(v) section 37 (Alteration of rules of contracted-out schemes);\n(w) section 50 (Powers of Inland Revenue to approve arrangements for scheme ceasing to be certified), as if the RMSPS were a scheme which had been certified as a contracted-out scheme and had ceased to be such a scheme;\n(x) section 51 (Calculation of guaranteed minimum pensions preserved under approved arrangements), as if the RMSPS were a scheme which had been certified as a contracted-out scheme and had ceased to be such a scheme;\n(y) Chapter III of Part IV (Protection of Increases in Guaranteed Minimum Pensions (“Anti-Franking”));\n(z) Chapter II of Part V (Guaranteed Minimum Pensions);\n(aa) section 155 (Requirement to give information to the Secretary of State or the Board for the purposes of certain provisions);\n(bb) section 156 (Information for purposes of contracting-out); and\n(cc) section 159 (Inalienability of guaranteed minimum pension and protected rights payments).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 13 not in force at made date, see art. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 13 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/966, arts. 2, 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/687/schedule/4/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:38:16.243439+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."
}