# The Occupational Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 1996, Regulation 10B: Provision of information on a website


(1) This regulation sets out the conditions which must be met when making information or documents available on a website under—
(a) regulation 3(2)(a)(ii);
(b) regulation 6(4)(a)(ii);
(c) regulation 7(3)(a)(ii); and
(d) regulation 10(1)(b)(ii).
(2) When the trustees of the scheme make the first information or document available on a website, they must send a notification to the recipient’s last known—
(a) postal address; or
(b) electronic address.
(3) The notification referred to in paragraph (2) must include—
(a) a statement that the information or document is available on the website;
(b) the website address;
(c) details of the place on the website where the information or document may be read; and
(d) an explanation of how the recipient may read the information or document on the website.
(4) Except where paragraph (6) applies, when the trustees of the scheme make any subsequent information or document available on a website, they must send a notification to the recipient’s last known—
(a) postal address; or
(b) electronic address.
(5) The notification referred to in paragraph (4) must include a statement that the information or document is available on the website.
(6) This paragraph applies where—
(a) at least 3 letters have been—
(i) given to the recipient by hand, or
(ii) sent to the recipient’s last known postal address;
(b) each of those letters—
(i) asks the recipient to send their electronic address to the trustees of the scheme, and
(ii) states that the recipient may request in writing that information or documents are not furnished or given by means of an electronic communication; and
(c) the trustees of the scheme—
(i) do not know the recipient’s electronic address, or
(ii) have not received a written request that information or documents are not furnished or given to the recipient by means of an electronic communication.
(7) In this regulation, “recipient” means the person, organisation or body to whom these Regulations require information or documents to be made available.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1655/regulation/10B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-disclosure-of-information-regulations-1996/regulation-10B
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