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COBS 15.1 Application

COBS 15.1.1GRP

1This chapter is relevant to a firm that enters into a contract cancellable under this chapter. In summary, this means it is relevant to:

  1. (1)

    most providers of retail financial products that are based on designated investments; and

    2
  2. (2)

    firms that enter into distance contracts with consumers that relate to designated investment business; and3

    2
  3. (3)

    firms that enter into distance contracts the making or performance of which by the firm constitutes, or is part of, the activity of issuing electronic money.3

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COBS 15.1.2R

4In this section:

  1. (a)

    “pension transfer” means a transaction, resulting from the decision of a retail client who is an individual to require a transfer payment of benefits from a pension scheme to:

    1. (i)

      benefits under a non-occupational pension scheme; or

    2. (ii)

      (for transfers from a non-occupational pension scheme) benefits under a defined contribution occupational pension scheme;

  2. (b)

    “non-occupational pension scheme” means a stakeholder pension scheme, a personal pension scheme or a deferred annuity contract; and

  3. (c)

    “pension scheme” means an occupational pension scheme or a non-occupational pension scheme.