The Pension Protection Fund (Pension Compensation Sharing and Attachment on Divorce etc) Regulations 2011 No. 731

PART 4 U.K. Pension compensation sharing and qualifying agreements (Scotland)

Circumstances in which an agreement is to be entered into, in order to be considered a “qualifying agreement” for the purposes of section 110(1)(a) of the Act U.K.

8.  The circumstances prescribed for the purposes of section 110(1)(a) of the Act are that —

(a) the transferor has notified the Board that a qualifying agreement which makes provision corresponding to—

(i) a pension compensation sharing order under section 8 of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985; or

(ii) a capital sum order made under section 8 containing provision by virtue of section 12B of that Act,

is to be made; and

(b) the transferor and transferee have entered into the agreement in order to determine the financial settlement on divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership.