{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-modification-of-schemes-regulations-1996/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-modification-of-schemes-regulations-1996/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Civil penalties",
  "text": "Where any person fails to comply with the requirements in a case where either regulation 3, 4 or 5 applies, the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority may require that person to pay within 28 days a penalty which shall—\n(a) in the case of an individual not exceed £5,000; and\n(b) in any other case, not exceed £50,000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority is established by virtue of section 1 of the Pensions Act 1995."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/786",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2517/regulation/8",
    "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."
}