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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-age-exceptions-for-pension-schemes-order-2010/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2133",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act (Age Exceptions for Pension Schemes) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-age-exceptions-for-pension-schemes-order-2010",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Occupational pension schemes: excepted rules, practices, actions and decisions",
  "text": "It is not a breach of the non-discrimination rule for the employer, or the trustees or managers of a scheme, to maintain or use in relation to the scheme,\n(a) those rules, practices, actions or decisions set out in Schedule 1; or\n(b) rules, practices, actions or decisions as they relate to rights accrued, or benefits payable, in respect of periods of pensionable service prior to 1st December 2006 that would breach the non-discrimination rule but for this paragraph.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 renumbered as art. 3(a) (1.10.2010) by The Equality Act (Age Exceptions for Pension Schemes) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2285), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 3(b) and word inserted (1.10.2010) by The Equality Act (Age Exceptions for Pension Schemes) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2285), arts. 1, 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.10.2010, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2133/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:48.711421+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."
}