{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/schedule-5/paragraph-6",
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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/5/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The following are qualifying arrangements for the purposes of this Schedule—\n(a) an occupational pension scheme,\n(b) a personal pension scheme,\n(c) an appropriate annuity contract,\n(d) an appropriate policy of insurance, and\n(e) an overseas arrangement within the meaning of the Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations 1996.\n(2) An annuity contract or policy of insurance is appropriate for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) if, at the time it is entered into or taken out, the insurer with which it is entered into or taken out—\n(a) is carrying on ... long-term insurance business in the United Kingdom ..., and\n(b) satisfies such requirements as the Secretary of State may prescribe by regulations.\n(3) “Insurer” and “long-term insurance business” have the meaning given in section 180A of the Pension Schemes Act 1993.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 para. 6(2) substituted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, arts. 1, 159(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 para. 6(2)(a) repealed (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, arts. 1, 159(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 6(2)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/192), regs. 1, 4(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 6(3) substituted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, arts. 1, 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1462."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 6 wholly in force at 1.12.2000; Sch. 5 para. 6 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 89(1)(5); Sch. 5 para. 6 in force at 1.12.2000 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. IV"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/30/schedule/5/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}