{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-member-nominated-trustees-and-directors-regulations-1996-revoked/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-member-nominated-trustees-and-directors-regulations-1996-revoked/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1216",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Member-nominated Trustees and Directors) Regulations 1996 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-member-nominated-trustees-and-directors-regulations-1996-revoked",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions from member-nominated trustee requirements",
  "text": "(1) Section 16 (requirement for member-nominated trustees) does not apply to any trust scheme—\n(a) each trustee of which is a company;\n(b) which is a relevant scheme in relation to a company in respect of which alternative arrangements under section 19(1) are for the time being approved;\n(c) which has less than two members;\n(d) the only benefits provided by which are death benefits;\n(e) to which section 119 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (requirement for independent trustee where employer becomes insolvent etc.) or section 22 (circumstances for application of requirement for an independent trustee) applies;\n(f) which is an occupational pension scheme which provides relevant benefits, but is neither an approved scheme nor a relevant statutory scheme;\n(g) which is a relevant self-administered scheme;\n(h) which is a relevant approved centralised scheme;\n(i) which is a direct payment, paid-up insured scheme;\n(j) which is a former old code scheme;\n(k) which is a section 615(6) scheme;\n(l) which is made under section 2 of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987 (power to provide for pensions for Members of the House of Commons etc.); ...\n(m) which has been modified under Schedule 5 to the Coal Industry Act 1994 ;\nor\n(n) which is a stakeholder pension scheme within the meaning of section 1 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999.\n(o) which is a Republic of Ireland scheme within the meaning of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Republic of Ireland Schemes Exemption) Regulations 2000.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked with savings (6.4.2006) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Member-nominated Trustees and Directors) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/714), regs. 1(1), 6, Sch. (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(1) deleted (1.10.2000) by The Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1403), regs. 1(2), 30(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1)(n) and word added (1.10.2000) by The Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1403), regs. 1(2), 30(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1)(o) inserted (31.12.2000) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Republic of Ireland Schemes Exemption) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3198), regs. 1(1), 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2) revoked (6.4.1997) by The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/786), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 5(4), Sch. 2 (with Sch. 1 para. 5(15))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1993 c.48."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1987 c.45."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1994 c.21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1216/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:44:22.776258+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."
}