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Version date: 18 January 2016 - onwards
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123. Rules respecting payments under schemes.

(1) Subject to section 124(4), the trustees of a scheme in respect of which an order has been made under section 121(2) shall, where the conditions set out in subsection (2) are present, apply, in accordance with relevant guidelines, the transfer amount calculated in accordance with those guidelines -

(a) if the trustees and the civil partner so agree, in providing a benefit for or in respect of the civil partner that is of the same actuarial value as the transfer amount, or

(b) in making a payment, at the option of the civil partner -

(i) to another occupational pension scheme whose trustees agree to accept the payment, or

(ii) to discharge another payment falling to be made by the trustees under any such other approved arrangement.

(2) The conditions referred to in subsection (1) are: