The Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations 1996

PART II [F1Further Conditions for Transfer from an Appropriate Policy to a Scheme that was a Salary-related Contracted-out Scheme of Accrued Rights to Guaranteed Minimum Pensions]

5.  The receiving scheme must provide for pensions to be paid which are of at least equal value to the annuity which would have been payable by the transferring policy, had the transfer not taken place, in respect of the earner’s accrued rights to guaranteed minimum pensions.