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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-modification-of-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2016/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/231",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Modification of Schemes - Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-modification-of-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2016",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make changes to regulations as a consequence of provisions contained within section 24(1) of, and Schedule 13 to, the Pensions Act 2014 (c.19) (“the 2014 Act”) which abolishes contracting-out for salary related occupational pension schemes from 6th April 2016, known as “the second abolition date”.\nRegulation 2 amends the Occupational Pension Schemes (Modification of Schemes) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/759) to provide a power for such schemes to modify their scheme rules to take account of changes made to section 16(2) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c.48) by Schedule 13 of the 2014 Act. Schemes may use this power to make changes to have effect from the second abolition date.\nRegulation 3 provides that changes made using the power provided for in regulation 2 are not ‘listed changes’ for the purposes of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consultation by Employers and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/349).\nRegulation 4 amends the Occupational Pension Schemes (Schemes that were Contracted-out) (No.2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1677) so that changes made using the power provided for in regulation 2 is a permitted change to scheme rules which govern guaranteed minimum pensions.\nAn analysis of the impact of the abolition of contracting-out has been made as part of the analysis of the 2014 Act. A copy is available in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament and from the Better Regulation Unit of the Department for Work and Pensions, 2D, Caxton House, Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NA.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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