{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/schedule-5/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/schedule-5/paragraph-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/26",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 23 (securing of benefits)–\n(a) subsections (1) and (5) are omitted,\n(b) in subsection (4), for “(1) to (3)” there is substituted “ (2) and (3) ”;\nand subsections (2) and (3) of that section do not apply where the winding up is begun on or after the principal appointed day and for the purposes of this paragraph the time when a scheme begins to be wound up shall be determined in accordance with regulation 2 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Winding Up) Regulations 1996.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 31 inserted (6.3.1997) by The Pensions Act 1995 (Commencement No. 10) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/664), art. 11(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 31 in force at 6.4.1997 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 1997/664, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 3 (with art. 11(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/22",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2004/35",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/22",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/26/schedule/5/paragraph/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:00.251754+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."
}