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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-regulations-1996/schedule-3/paragraph-12",
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  "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": "schedule/3/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where, on the effective date, the scheme has not been established but is in the process of being established.\n(2) For the purposes of carrying out the comparison under regulation 23, the actuary must use estimated membership information.\n(3) In this paragraph, “estimated membership information” means any information about the earners who the actuary expects to join the scheme when it is established which—\n(a) the actuary considers is necessary for the purposes of the comparison under regulation 23, and\n(b) may include information on the age, gender and earnings of those earners.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 added (1.10.2011) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Amendment Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1294), regs. 1(2), 2(3), Schs."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1172/schedule/3/paragraph/12",
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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."
}