{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1988/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1988/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/476",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Discharge of Liability) Regulations 1985",
  "text": "(1) The Occupational Pension Schemes (Discharge of Liability) Regulations 1985 shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 4 of those Regulations the word “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (b)(iii) shall be omitted and at the end of paragraph (b) (but not as part of sub-paragraph (iii) of that paragraph) there shall be inserted “and in each case mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) to (iii) that any increase of guaranteed minimum pension under section 37A results in a similar increase in the annuity; and”.\n(3) In regulation 5(b)(ii), after “12(4)(a)” there shall be inserted “(and the conditions specified in regulation 12 (4A)(c) to (f) are satisfied)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1929; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1986/2171, 1987/1106 and 1114."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (4A) was inserted by regulation 3(3) of S.I. 1987/1106."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/784",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Discharge of Liability) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/784",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Discharge of Liability) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/476/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:09:53.386763+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."
}