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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-modification-of-schemes-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-modification-of-schemes-regulations-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2517",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Modification of Schemes) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-modification-of-schemes-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Occupational Pension Schemes (Modification of Schemes) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 6th April 1997.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 1995 Act” means the Pensions Act 1995; and\n“public service pension scheme” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993.\n(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—\n(a) to a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations;\n(b) in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3198",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3198",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3198",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "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/1996/2517/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:34:42.702222+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."
}