{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-protected-persons-scotland-pension-regulations-1990/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-protected-persons-scotland-pension-regulations-1990/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/510",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Protected Persons) (Scotland) Pension Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-protected-persons-scotland-pension-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Methods of providing a relevant scheme",
  "text": "Any duty imposed by these Regulations to provide a relevant scheme for a protected person may be satisfied by the employer as soon as reasonably practicable–\n(a) participating in the North Scheme or, as the case may be, the South Scheme; or\n(b) (i) amending or procuring the amendment of an existing retirement benefits scheme to the extent (if any) necessary to cause that scheme to be a relevant scheme; or\n(ii) establishing a new relevant scheme;\nand in either case being or becoming a participant in that scheme;\nand, in any such case enabling the protected person to participate in that scheme with effect, whether actual or deemed, from the date upon which the duty to provide that scheme arose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/510/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:25:08.625540+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."
}