{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-protected-persons-pensions-regulations-1994/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-protected-persons-pensions-regulations-1994/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Future pension rights",
  "text": "(1) The rights specified in paragraph (2) are the future pension rights to which a protected employee is entitled.\n(2) The rights mentioned in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) The right of a protected employee to participate in a relevant scheme and (subject to paragraph (4))—\n(i) where that scheme is a New Scheme, to accrue pension rights in accordance with the rules from time to time of that scheme;\n(ii) where that scheme is an alternative scheme, to accrue pension rights on the same basis as that applicable to other protected employees in that scheme;\n(iii) in the event of a change of employer which does not affect continuity of employment to an employer who participates in a New Scheme, to accrue pension rights on the same basis as that applicable to other protected employees in that scheme; and\n(iv) in the event of a change of employer which does not affect continuity of employment to an employer who participates in an alternative scheme, to accrue pension rights on the same basis as that applicable to other protected employees in that scheme;\nProvided that the pension rights referred to in sub-paragraphs (ii) and (iv) of this paragraph do not include any addition to or improvement of the pension rights provided by the alternative scheme in question which is made after the date upon which such scheme is provided pursuant to these Regulations.\n(b) Subject to paragraph (3), the right of a protected employee, who is participating in a relevant scheme and who changes his employer, where such change does not affect continuity of employment, to an employer who provides a relevant scheme in which no protected employees are then participating to accrue pension rights which are no worse than his participation date rights.\n(3) Where an employer has no protected employees participating in an alternative scheme which the employer provides for a protected employee pursuant to these Regulations at any time after the date of commencement of the total winding up of a New Scheme and—\n(a) the employer has at any time since that date provided an alternative scheme for protected employees who participated in the New Scheme on that date; or\n(b) the employer has not provided such a scheme but is a company wholly owned by a person which has provided such a scheme,\nthere shall be substituted in paragraph (2)(b) for the reference to participation date rights a reference to the rights so provided.\n(4) Where the pension rights of protected employees in a relevant scheme are worse than the participation date rights in relation to a protected employee joining that scheme, any reference in paragraph (2)(a)(iii) or (iv) to the pension rights of the protected employees in that scheme shall be construed as a reference to those participation date rights.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}