{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-regulations-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1172",
  "legislation_title": "Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Consultation with trade unions.",
  "text": "(1) An employer who has given a notice under regulation 3 shall undertake consultations, if he has not already done so, about the matters covered by the notice with all independent trade unions recognised in relation to the earners concerned.\n(2) Any question whether an organisation is an independent trade union recognised in relation to earners may be referred by the employer of those earners, or by the organisation, to an industrial tribunal.\n(3) Any question whether an employer has complied with the requirements as to consultations specified in paragraph (1) may be referred by the employer, or by an independent trade union recognised in relation to the earners concerned, to an industrial tribunal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (S.) (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/145), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (S.) (1.4.2015) by The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/117), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (1.4.2015) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Consequential and Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/372), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (1.4.2015) by The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (England) (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/319), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (1.4.2015) by The Armed Forces Pension (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/390), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (S.) (1.4.2015) by The Police Pensions (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/118), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Regs. 3-5 excluded (1.4.2015) by The Police Pensions (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/370), regs. 1(2), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Regs. 3-5 excluded (W.) (1.4.2015) by The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (No. 848), regs. 1(2), 4(2) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Pt. II applied (with modifications) (1.4.2015 coming into force in accordance with ) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/432), regs. 1(2), 4(1) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (1.4.2015) by The Judicial Pensions Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/182), reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 2 (with regs. 148, 160, Sch. 3 paras. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (S.) (1.4.2015) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/146), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (1.4.2015) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/436), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1172/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:44:46.785957+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."
}