{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/schedule-5/paragraph-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/schedule-5/paragraph-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/26",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/39",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For section 37 (alteration of rules of contracted-out schemes) there is substituted—\n“ Alteration of rules of contracted-out schemes.\n37 (1) Except in prescribed circumstances, the rules of a contracted-out scheme cannot be altered unless the alteration is of a prescribed description.\n(2) Regulations made by virtue of subsection (1) may operate so as to validate with retrospective effect any alteration of the rules which would otherwise be void under this section.\n(3) References in this section to a contracted-out scheme include a scheme which has ceased to be contracted-out so long as any person is entitled to receive, or has accrued rights to, any benefits under the scheme attributable to a period when the scheme was contracted-out.\n(4) The reference in subsection (3) to a person entitled to receive benefits under a scheme includes a person so entitled by virtue of being the widower of an earner only in such cases as may be prescribed.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 39 in force at 6.4.1996 for specified purposes by S.I. 1996/778, art. 2(5)(a), Sch. Pt. V"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 39 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"
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "repealed",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      "type": "repealed",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      "type": "repealed",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/39",
    "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."
}