{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-protected-persons-pensions-regulations-1994/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-protected-persons-pensions-regulations-1994/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3070",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal Industry (Protected Persons) Pensions Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-protected-persons-pensions-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Change of employer",
  "text": "(1) This regulation shall apply for the benefit of a protected employee who changes his employer in either of the circumstances specified in paragraph (4).\n(2) If the new employer is not a participant in the relevant scheme in which the protected employee participates he shall forthwith make application to join the scheme and shall carry out the procedural requirements of the scheme to enable such an application to be accepted and every employer who is a participant in the scheme shall take all the necessary steps to ensure that the application is accepted.\n(3) If the circumstances in which the protected employee changes his employer are those specified in paragraph (4)(a) and the new employer is a member of a pension group within the relevant scheme or forms a pension group or joins an existing pension group or joins with any other employers to form a pension group within the scheme, the employer shall provide or procure the provision of future pension rights to the protected employee which—\n(a) if the pension group already contains protected employees, are the same as the future pension rights for which provision is made by regulation 6(2)(a)(iii) and (iv) and (4); or\n(b) if the pension group contains no protected employees, are the same as those for which provision is made by regulation 6(2)(b) and (3).\n(4) The circumstances mentioned in paragraph (1) are:\n(a) where the change of employer of a protected employee does not affect the continuity of employment of the protected employee;\n(b) where sub-paragraph (a) above does not apply and the new employer—\n(i) opts to allow the protected employee to continue, in respect of his employment with that employer, as a participant in the relevant scheme; and\n(ii) is able to exercise that option without the scheme ceasing to be approved for the purposes of the relevant enactments.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3070/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:21:48.722289+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}