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100.—(1) An active member with relevant pension rights may request the appropriate administering authority to accept a transfer value for some or all of those rights from the relevant transferor.
(2) Relevant pension rights are—
(a)accrued rights under a registered pension scheme other than rights to benefits under the scheme which are attributable (directly or indirectly) to a pension credit; and
(b)accrued rights under a European pensions institution.
(3) Accrued rights under a registered pension scheme include rights to preserved benefits and rights appropriately secured under section 19 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 M1.
(4) The relevant transferor is the trustees or managers of the scheme under which the transferring person's relevant pension rights arise.
(5) But the relevant transferor for the rights specified in paragraph (3) is the trustees and managers of the scheme, or the insurance company, to which a payment in respect of the person's accrued rights has been made.
(6) A request from a transferring person under paragraph (1) must be made by notice in writing given to the appropriate administering authority and the Scheme employer before the expiry of the period of 12 months beginning with the date on which the person first became an active member in an employment (or such longer period as the Scheme employer and administering authority may allow).
(7) Where a request under paragraph (1) is duly made, the administering authority may accept the transfer value and credit it to its pension fund.
[F1(8) Where a relevant transfer is a Club Transfer, the administering authority must comply with the provisions in the Club Memorandum in relation to that transfer.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 100(8) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/493), regs. 1(2), 16
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M1Section 19 was amended by S.I. 2001/3649, 2005/2050 and 2007/3014.
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