{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-2000/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-2000/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1403",
  "legislation_title": "The Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stakeholder-pension-schemes-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Procedure for discharging on winding-up rights of members with whom the trustees or manager have lost contact",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in respect of any member—\n(a) whose present postal address and electronic address is not known to the trustees or manager;\n(b) in respect of whom the trustees or manager have sent correspondence to their last known—\n(i) postal address and that correspondence has been returned, or\n(ii) electronic address and the trustees or manager are satisfied that that correspondence has not been delivered; and\n(c) in respect of whom no contribution has been made to the scheme by or on behalf of the member during the two calendar years preceding the commencement of winding-up of the scheme.\n(2) In cases where this regulation applies, the trustees or manager shall on the winding-up of the scheme make a transfer payment in respect of the member’s rights to their choice of a stakeholder pension scheme, or to a scheme registered under Article 4 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and need give no notice of the transfer payment to the member either before or after it is made.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7(1) substituted (1.12.2010) by The Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2659), regs. 1(2), 4(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1403/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:49.008480+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."
}