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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-independent-trustee-regulations-2005/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/703",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Independent Trustee) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-independent-trustee-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Extension of the meaning of “employer”",
  "text": "For the purposes of sections 22 to 26 of the 1995 Act and these Regulations references to the employer shall include a person who would have been an employer to whom the circumstances set out in section 22(1)(a) or (b) of that Act apply, but for the fact that, immediately before an insolvency practitioner or the official receiver began to act as set out in those subsections, that person no longer employed any persons in the description of employment to which the scheme in question relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/703/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:03:53.417747+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."
}