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The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024

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14.—(1) A beneficiary who has received notice from the trustees under paragraph 13 may give notice to the trustees requiring them to discharge the scheme’s liability to the beneficiary in respect of the value of the beneficiary’s accrued rights to benefits under the scheme—N.I.

(a)in the way set out in the default discharge option, or

(b)in an alternative way specified by the beneficiary.

(2) The alternative ways which may be specified by the beneficiary are—

(a)transferring the value of the beneficiaries’ accrued rights to benefits under the scheme to an authorised collective money purchase scheme or an authorised Master Trust scheme;

(b)transferring the value of those rights to a personal pension scheme or an occupational pension scheme which is registered under Chapter 2 of Part 4 of the Finance Act 2004 (registration of pension schemes);

(c)transferring the value of those rights to a member’s flexi-access drawdown fund in respect of an arrangement for the purposes of entitlement by the beneficiary to income withdrawal which is an authorised member payment for the purposes of Part 4 of the Finance Act 2004 (pension schemes [F1etc);]

[F2(ca)transferring the value of those rights to a dependant’s flexi-access drawdown fund in respect of an arrangement for the purposes of entitlement by the dependant to dependants’ income withdrawal which is an authorised member payment for the purposes of Part 4 of the Finance Act 2004;

(cb)transferring the value of those rights to a nominee’s flexi-access drawdown fund in respect of an arrangement for the purposes of entitlement by the nominee to nominees’ income withdrawal which is an authorised member payment for the purposes of Part 4 of the Finance Act 2004;

(cc)transferring the value of those rights to a successor’s flexi-access drawdown fund in respect of an arrangement for the purposes of entitlement by the successor to successors’ income withdrawal which is an authorised member payment for the purposes of Part 4 of the Finance Act 2004;]

(d)securing the payment of benefits by the purchase of one or more policies from one or more insurers authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority for carrying on long-term insurance business in the United Kingdom.

(3) Where the alternative way specified by the beneficiary is that the value of the beneficiary’s accrued rights to benefits should be transferred to an alternative pension scheme, the scheme must be one which is able and willing to accept the transfer.

(4) A notice under this paragraph—

(a)must be sent before the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the day when the beneficiary received notice from the trustees under paragraph 13, and

(b)must contain sufficient information about the alternative way specified by the beneficiary, including bank account details, to enable the trustees to comply with paragraph 15.

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