{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sharing-of-state-scheme-rights-provision-of-information-and-valuation-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2693",
  "legislation_title": "The Sharing of State Scheme Rights (Provision of Information and Valuation) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sharing-of-state-scheme-rights-provision-of-information-and-valuation-regulations-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision in connection with the sharing, on divorce or nullity of marriage, of rights to the additional pension component of a state retirement pension.\nRegulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and interpretation.\nRegulation 2 specifies the information which the Secretary of State must supply to the parties to a marriage or the court in relation to the sharing of state scheme rights. This regulation also specifies the time limits within which that information must be furnished.\nRegulation 3 sets out how the value of the state scheme rights must be calculated and verified when a valuation of those rights is requested in connection with the sharing of those rights.\nRegulation 4 provides for how cash equivalents shall be calculated and verified for the purposes of the creation of state scheme pension debits and credits, the reduction of the additional pension, the creation of the shared additional pension and the reduction of the shared additional pension, as a result of pension sharing.\nThese Regulations do not impose any costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2693/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:12:56.985856+00:00"
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  "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."
}