{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protected-rights-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protected-rights-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/509",
  "legislation_title": "The Protected Rights (Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protected-rights-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General",
  "text": "A money purchase contracted-out scheme or an appropriate personal pension scheme (or a scheme which was formerly a money purchase contracted-out scheme or an appropriate personal pension scheme) may give effect to the protected rights of a member by the making of a transfer payment—\n(a) to an appropriate personal pension scheme, or\n(b) to an occupational pension scheme,\nin accordance with regulations 3 to 5, and in these Regulations a “transfer payment” means a transfer payment such as is described in this regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 2",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/467",
      "affecting_title": "The Protected Rights (Transfer Payment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/509/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:42.966252+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."
}