{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-178",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-178.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/48",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993",
  "path": "section/178",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "178",
  "heading": "Trustees and managers of schemes.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may by regulations provide—\n(a) who is to be treated as a manager of an occupational pension scheme for any of the purposes of the provisions of this Act (except Chapter II of Part VII or section 157), the Social Security Acts 1975 to 1991, or Part VI of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 ... , section 25D of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, section 12A of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 or , Part III or IV of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 ... ; ...\n(b) who is to be treated as a trustee of a scheme for the purposes of ... Chapter I of Part IV, Part VIII so far as it applies for the purposes of Chapter I of Part IV, Chapter I of Part IVA, sections ... 153(2), 158(1) to (5), 162, 163, ...and 176 ... or sections 22 to 26 of the Pensions Act 1995.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 178(a) repealed (1.12.2000) by Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), s. 89(1), Sch. 12 para. 40(2)(a), Sch. 13 Pt. III; S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 178(a) repealed (1.3.2002 for specified purposes, 1.4.2002 in so far as not already in force) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), Sch. 9 Pt. III(2) (with s. 83(6)); S.I. 2002/437, art. 3(1)(H)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 178(a) inserted (1.12.2000) by Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), s. 89(1), Sch. 12 para. 40(2)(b); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 178(a) inserted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 13 para. 42(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 178(a) substituted (12.2.2001 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), s. 86(1)(b)(2), Sch. 5 para. 17(9) (with s. 83(6)); S.I. 2000/3166, art. 2(5) (as amended (28.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1252, art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 178(a) omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 13 para. 42(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 178(a) repealed (6.4.1997) by Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26), s. 180(1), Sch. 3 para. 43, Sch. 7 Pt. I; S.I. 1997/664, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 178(b) repealed (6.4.1997) by Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26), s. 180(1), Sch. 5 para. 76, Sch. 7 Pt. III; S.I. 1997/664, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 178(b) inserted (1.12.2000) by Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), s. 89(1), Sch. 12 para. 40(3); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 178(b) repealed (6.4.1997) by Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26), s. 180(1), Sch. 6 para. 13, Sch. 7 Pt. IV; S.I. 1997/664, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 178(b) inserted (1.3.2002 for specified purposes, 1.4.2002 in so far as not already in force) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), ss. 47(5), 86(1)(b)(2) (with s. 83(6)); S.I. 2002/437, art. 3(1)(a)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 178(b) substituted (6.4.2006) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(1), Sch. 12 para. 29; S.I. 2006/560, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1992 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Ss. 1-187 in force at 7.2.1994 by S.I. 1994/86, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/48/section/178",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:33.061575+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."
}