{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-scheme-administration-regulations-1996/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-scheme-administration-regulations-1996/regulation-21.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/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Circumstances where notice of non-payment of any amount payable to a scheme need not be given",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In the case of a scheme in relation to which there is more than one employer, notice of non-payment in respect of an amount payable in accordance with the payment schedule need not be given to members where their pensionable service is not with the employer who has not paid any amount in accordance with that payment schedule.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Where, under section 49(9)(b) of the 1995 Act (other responsibilities of trustees, employers, etc ), there is a requirement on the trustees or managers to give notice within a reasonable time of a failure to pay within a reasonable period an amount corresponding to any contribution payable on behalf of an active member which has been deducted from the member’s earnings, the trustees or managers shall not be required to give notice of a failure to pay such amount by the due date for the purposes of subsection (1) of section 88 of that Act, in a case to which that subsection would otherwise apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 21(1) 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(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 21(3) 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(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 21(4) substituted (6.4.2006) by Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/778), regs. 1(1)(a), 4(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(4) substituted (6.4.2006) by Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration and Audited Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2426), regs. 1(2)(c), 4(8)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1715/regulation/21",
    "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."
}