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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-age-exceptions-for-pension-schemes-order-2010/note",
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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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order contains permitted exceptions for occupational pension schemes to the non-discrimination rule contained in section 61 of Part 5 of the Equality Act 2010 (“The Equality Act”) (work) as it applies to age.\nThis Order also contains permitted exceptions, relating to employer contributions to personal pension schemes, to the other non-discrimination provisions of Part 5 of the Act as they apply to age.\nThe non-discrimination provisions in Part 5 of the Equality Act as they apply to age supersede Part 2 of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1031) (“the Age Regulations”), now repealed.\nThe permitted exceptions to Part 2 of the Age Regulations relating to occupational pension schemes, contained in Schedule 2 to those Regulations, are replaced by the provisions of Schedule 1 to this Order for occupational pension schemes as defined by section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993.\nThe permitted exceptions to Part 2 of the Age Regulations relating to payments by the employer to personal pension schemes, contained in Schedule 2 to those Regulations, and are replaced by the provisions in Schedule 2 to this Order.\nArticle 3 provides that it is not a breach of the non-discrimination rule to maintain or use those rules, practices, actions or decisions set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.\nArticle 4 provides that it is not an age contravention to maintain or use those practices, actions or decisions set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.\nArticle 5 provides that the inclusion of a rule, practice, action or decision in Schedule 1 or 2 shall not be taken to mean, but for that inclusion, the use or maintenance of the rule, practice, action or decision would otherwise be unlawful.\nSchedule 1 contains exceptions to the non-discrimination rule for occupational pension schemes.\nSchedule 2 contains exceptions to Part 5 of the Equality Act as it relates to age for employers contributing to a personal pension scheme.\nAn Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities or voluntary bodies.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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