{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-employer-debt-regulations-2005/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-employer-debt-regulations-2005/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/678",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-employer-debt-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Modification of schemes: apportionment of section 75 debts",
  "text": "(1) This regulation prescribes a purpose for which the trustees of a trust scheme (whether or not a money purchase scheme) may by resolution modify the scheme under section 68 of the 1995 Act (power of trustees to modify schemes by resolution).\n(2) The purpose is to enable—\n(a) a scheme apportionment arrangement, or\n(b) a regulated apportionment arrangement,\nto be entered into.\n(3) No modification may be made for the purpose in paragraph (2) unless the trustees have consulted such employers in relation to the scheme as they think appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 substituted (6.4.2010) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/725), regs. 1(2), 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/678/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:04:11.283026+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."
}