RPSM14300020 - Scheme Administrator Pages: Transfers: Receiving a transfer payment in a registered pension scheme: Your scheme's rules

Your scheme's rules

Your scheme's rules may contain requirements concerning transfer payments which you should take account of when dealing with a transfer into your scheme.

The contents of this part of the manual are based on HMRC rules. The scheme rules may not allow all the options described in the HMRC rules.

If a scheme member or potential member, another pension scheme, or anyone else contacts you to make a transfer into your registered pension scheme, you should first check that the proposed transfer does not contravene your scheme rules. Then, unless your scheme is a stakeholder pension scheme, you should decide whether or not to accept the transfer. If your scheme is a stakeholder pension scheme, you must accept the transfer.

You should then take account of HMRC rules in deciding what action you need to take once you have accepted the transfer.

Glossary ( RPSM20000000)