{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-scheme-administration-regulations-1996/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-scheme-administration-regulations-1996/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1715",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Scheme Administration) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-scheme-administration-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Exemption from requirement to secure a payment schedule",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 87(1) of the 1995 Act (requirement for occupational pension schemes which are money purchase schemes to secure and maintain a payment schedule unless the scheme falls within a prescribed class or description) the prescribed class or description is a money purchase scheme which falls within the descriptions referred to in—\n(a) regulation 3(1)(a), (d), (f), (h) ...; or\n(b) regulation 3(1)(c) or (i) where any such scheme has fewer than 100 members.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 substituted (30.8.2005, 22.9.2005 for specified purposes, 6.4.2006 in so far as not already in force) by Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration and Audited Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2426), regs. 1(2), 3(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(a) omitted (6.4.2006) by virtue of Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration and Audited Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2426), regs. 1(2)(c), 4(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1715/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:39:59.158820+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."
}