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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-regulations-2010/regulation-37",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/772",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Test scheme: requirements to revalue accrued benefits and increase pensions in payment",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies for the purposes of section 23(1)(c) (test scheme) of the Act.\n(2) The following must be satisfied in relation to a test scheme—\n(a) the requirements of section 84 (basis of revaluation) of the 1993 Act; and\n(b) the requirements of section 51 (annual increase in rate of pension) of the 1995 Act in relation to a scheme which provides for a member to be entitled to a pension commencing at the appropriate age and continuing for life.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a)—\n(a) a test scheme which falls within section 23(2)(a) of the Act and a test scheme which falls within regulation 39A(2) must satisfy the requirements of section 84 of the 1993 Act by reference to the final salary method; and\n(b) a test scheme to which regulation 39A(3) applies must satisfy the requirements of section 84 of the 1993 Act by reference to the average salary method or the final salary method.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 37(1) substituted (1.7.2012) by The Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/215), regs. 1(2)(c), 32(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 37(2)(a) substituted (1.11.2013) by The Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2556), regs. 1(1), 5(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 37(2)(b) added (1.7.2012) by The Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/215), regs. 1(2)(c), 32(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 37(3) substituted (1.11.2013) by The Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2556), regs. 1(1), 5(8)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 51 was amended by paragraph 51 of Schedule 12 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c.30), section 51(1) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c.19), section 278 of the Pensions Act 2004 (c.35) and S.I. 2006/745."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/772/regulation/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:47:56.546758+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."
}