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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-age-exceptions-for-pension-schemes-order-2010/article-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Unlawfulness of rules, practices, actions or decisions",
  "text": "(1) The inclusion of a rule, practice, action or decision in Schedule 1 (Occupational Pension Schemes: excepted rules, practices, actions or decisions) shall not be taken to mean that, but for the exemption in Schedule 1, the use or maintenance by an employer or the trustees or managers of a scheme of the rule, practice, action or decision in relation to the scheme, would be unlawful.\n(2) The inclusion of a practice, action or decision in Schedule 2 (Contributions by Employers to Personal Pension Schemes: excepted practices, actions or decisions) shall not be taken to mean that, but for the exemption in Schedule 2, the use or maintenance by an employer of the practice, action or decision in relation to the payment of contributions to a personal pension scheme in respect of a worker, would be unlawful.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 1.10.2010, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2133/article/5",
    "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."
}