{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-disclosure-of-information-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-disclosure-of-information-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1655",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-disclosure-of-information-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A statement that TPAS (The Pensions Advisory Service) is available at any time to assist members and beneficiaries of the scheme in connection with any–\n(a) pensions query they may have; or\n(b) difficulty which they have failed to resolve with the trustees or administrators of the scheme,\nand the address at which TPAS may be contacted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 26 substituted (6.4.2008) by Occupational Pension Schemes (Internal Dispute Resolution Procedures Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/649), regs. 1(1), 6(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 26 inserted (30.12.1999) by The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3198), regs. 1(1), 5(4)(a) (with reg. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 26 substituted (30.12.1999) by The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3198), regs. 1(1), 5(4)(b) (with reg. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1986 c.50. Section 7 was repealed by Schedule 5 to the Pension Schemes Act 1993, subject to the saving in paragraph 22 of Schedule 6 to that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2691",
      "affecting_title": "The Pension Sharing (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3198",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1655/schedule/1/paragraph/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:40:31.841882+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."
}