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Article 594 Insurance companies that may provide safeguarded rights by way of annuities
(1) In regulation 8 of the Pension Sharing (Safeguarded Rights) Regulations 2000 (insurance companies that may provide safeguarded rights by way of annuities), for paragraph (2) substitute -
"(2) The insurance company must be -
(a) a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurance; or
(b) an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(d) of Schedule 3 to that Act, which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurance.".
(2) In paragraph (4) of that regulation, for the words from the beginning of that paragraph to "as described in paragraph (2) (b)," substitute "Where the annuities are issued by an insurance company which is a friendly society, within the meaning given by section 116 of the Friendly Societies Act 1992,".
(3) After that paragraph insert -
"(5) Paragraph (2) must be read with -
(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
(b) any relevant order under that section; and
(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.".