{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/30",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 25B of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), for “scheme”, wherever occurring, there is substituted “ arrangement ”.\n(3) Subsection (2) ceases to have effect.\n(4) In subsection (3), for “scheme” there is substituted “ arrangement ”.\n(5) In subsection (4)—\n(a) for “scheme”, wherever occurring, there is substituted “ arrangement ”, and\n(b) for “trustees or managers of” there is substituted “ person responsible for ”.\n(6) For subsection (5) there is substituted—\n“(5) The order must express the amount of any payment required to be made by virtue of subsection (4) above as a percentage of the payment which becomes due to the party with pension rights.”\n(7) In subsection (6)—\n(a) for “trustees or managers”, in the first place, there is substituted “ person responsible for the arrangement ”, and\n(b) for “the trustees or managers”, in the second place, there is substituted “ his ”.\n(8) In subsection (7)—\n(a) for the words from “may require any” to “those benefits” there is substituted “ has a right of commutation under the arrangement, the order may require him to exercise it to any extent ”,\n(b) for “the payment of any amount commuted” there is substituted “ any payment due in consequence of commutation ”, and\n(c) for “scheme” there is substituted “ arrangement ”.\n(9) After that subsection there is inserted—\n“(7A) The power conferred by subsection (7) above may not be exercised for the purpose of commuting a benefit payable to the party with pension rights to a benefit payable to the other party.\n(7B) The power conferred by subsection (4) or (7) above may not be exercised in relation to a pension arrangement which—\n(a) is the subject of a pension sharing order in relation to the marriage, or\n(b) has been the subject of pension sharing between the parties to the marriage.\n(7C) In subsection (1) above, references to benefits under a pension arrangement include any benefits by way of pension, whether under a pension arrangement or not.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1 wholly in force at 1.12.2000; Sch. 4 para. 1 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 89(1)(5); Sch. 4 para. 1 in force at 1.12.2000 by S.I. 2000/1116, art. 2(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/30/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:37.576921+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."
}