The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Protected Rights) Regulations 1987

Choice of insurance company by annuitant

8.  For the purposes of paragraph 9(9) of Schedule 1 to the Act (scheme member to be taken to have chosen an insurance company to provide his annuity only if he gives notice in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed period) the prescribed manner is in writing, and the prescribed period is—

(a) in a case where the trustees or managers of the scheme know of no reason to suppose that the pension or annuity will not commence on the date on which the member will attain pensionable age, a period of 5 months (or such longer period as the rules of the scheme may allow) beginning on the date which is 6 months earlier than that on which he will attain pensionable age; andd

(b) in any other case—

(i) if the date (“the date of agreement”) on which the member agrees, under paragraph 9(7)(a)(ii) of Schedule 1 to the Act, a later date (“the agreed date”) for commencement of payment than that on which he will attain pensionable age is more than one month before the agreed date, a period beginning on the date of agreement and ending one month before the agreed date, and

(ii) if the date of agreement is not more than one month before the agreed date, a period consisting only of the date of agreement,

or such longer period as the rules of the scheme may allow.