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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-modification-of-schemes-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
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  "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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exemption from the restriction on powers to modify schemes",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 67(5) of the 1995 Act (restriction on the power to modify does not apply to the exercise of a power in a prescribed manner) the prescribed manner is, in the case of an occupational pension scheme which is not a trust scheme, the exercise of the power by the managers with the member’s consent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3198",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3198",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2050",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Contracted-out Occupational and Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) (Surviving Civil Partners) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/681",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2517/regulation/6",
    "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."
}