{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-reduction-in-pension-rates-regulations-2006/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-reduction-in-pension-rates-regulations-2006/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/138",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Schemes (Reduction in Pension Rates) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-reduction-in-pension-rates-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Reduction of pension — prescribed circumstances",
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraph 2(4)(h) (reduction of the pension in any other circumstances prescribed by regulations) the prescribed circumstances are where the amount of pension payable to a member has been reduced under any of the following provisions—\n(a) section 138(2) of the Pensions Act 2004 (payment of scheme benefits);\n(b) article 122(2) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005;\n(c) paragraph 14(3) or 15(3) (guaranteed minimum pension etc) of Schedule 5 to the Gender Recognition Act 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 35."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/255 (N.I.1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2004 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1111",
      "affecting_title": "The Registered Pension Schemes (Reduction in Pension Rates, Accounting and Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst (retrosp to 6.4.2006)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1311",
      "affecting_title": "The Pension Schemes (Reduction in Pension Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/138/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:07.387191+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."
}