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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1901",
  "legislation_title": "The Divorce etc (Pensions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Unless the contrary intention appears, in these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985;\n“the 1993 Act” means the Pensions Schemes Act 1993;\n“the 1995 Act” means the Pensions Act 1995;\n“active member” has the same meaning as in section 124 of the 1995 Act;\n“benefits under a pension scheme” has the same meaning as in section 10(10), subject to section 12A(10) and any reference to the rights or interests which a party has or may have in benefits under a pension scheme includes a reference to the rights or interests which a party has or may have in such benefits which are payable in respect of the death of either party;\n“deferred member” has the same meaning as in section 124 of the 1995 Act;\n“a party” means a party to a marriage;\n“occupational pension scheme” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the 1993 Act;\n“pension scheme” has the same meaning as in section 10(10);\n“personal pension scheme” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the 1993 Act but, as if the reference to employed earners in that definition were to any earner;\n“matrimonial property” has the same meaning as in section 10(4) and (5);\n“relevant date” has the same meaning as in section 10(3);\n“trustee or manager of a pension scheme” shall be construed as in section 10(11),\nand any expression used in regulations 5 to 10 to which a meaning is assigned in section 12A shall have the same meaning in these Regulations as in that section.\n(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, any reference in these Regulations to–\n(a) a numbered section is to a section bearing that number in the Act;\n(b) a numbered regulation is to a regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c. 26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/745",
      "affecting_title": "The Divorce etc (Pensions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/745",
      "affecting_title": "The Divorce etc (Pensions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/745",
      "affecting_title": "The Divorce etc (Pensions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/745",
      "affecting_title": "The Divorce etc (Pensions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/112",
      "affecting_title": "The Divorce etc. (Pensions) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1050",
      "affecting_title": "The Divorce etc. (Notification and Treatment of Pensions) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked in part",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/112",
      "affecting_title": "The Divorce etc. (Pensions) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1901/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:30.856454+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."
}