{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-protected-persons-pensions-regulations-1994/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-protected-persons-pensions-regulations-1994/regulation-15.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/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Persons owing a duty",
  "text": "(1) Any duty imposed by these Regulations on the employer of a protected person shall also be a duty owed by any person by whom such employer is, or at any time after the protected person became a protected person has been, wholly owned.\n(2) If a protected employee changes his employer and does not require the accrued pension rights to which he is entitled immediately before the change to be transferred to the relevant scheme provided by his new employer in accordance with these Regulations, any former employer of whose relevant scheme those rights remain a liability shall be treated as the employer of that person for the purposes of these Regulations in respect of those rights until they are transferred to another relevant scheme.",
  "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/15",
    "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."
}