Regulation 4 Application of these Regulations

Subject to paragraphs (2), (3), (6) and (9), the trustees or managers of an occupational pension scheme that falls within paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 must give information in accordance with regulations 6, 8, 9 to 17, 18 to 22, 24, 25 and, where the scheme falls within section 35 (investment principles) of the 1995 Act or the scheme is a relevant scheme within the meaning of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Scheme Administration) Regulations 1996, regulation 29A.

Regulations 9, 10, 12, 13 and 15 do not apply to a public service pension scheme if—

Regulation 17 does not apply to a stakeholder pension scheme within the meaning of section 1 of the 1999 Act M2 (meaning of “stakeholder pension scheme”).

Subject to paragraph (6), the trustees or managers of a pension scheme that is—

must give information in accordance with regulation 7.

Subject to paragraphs (3) and (6) the managers of a personal pension scheme that falls within paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 must give information in accordance with regulations 10, 17F4, 18, 21 and 23.

Paragraphs (1), (4) and (5) F5and regulations 8A, 17A, 22A, 22B and 29B do not require the trustees or managers of a scheme to give information to—

F6Except when information is given verbally in accordance with regulation 18B(3) F7or 18C(4) or (7), when any information is given in accordance with paragraph (1), (4) or (5) F8or regulation 8A, 17A, 22A, 22B or 29B, it must be accompanied by the postal and electronic address to which a person should send requests for further information or any other enquiry.

In this regulation “defined benefits scheme” has the meaning given in section 37 of the 2013 Act.

Regulations 12A, 17, 18B, 19 and 25 do not apply to a collective money purchase scheme.

For the purposes of these Regulations, where a pension scheme is divided into sections, each section that is a collective money purchase scheme is to be treated as a separate scheme.