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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/section-158",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/26",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995",
  "path": "section/158",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "158",
  "heading": "Costs and expenses.",
  "text": "In section 149 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993—\n(a) after subsection (3)(b) there is inserted\nand\n(c) for the payment by the Ombudsman of such travelling and other allowances (including compensation for loss of remunerative time) as the Secretary of State may determine, to—\n(i) actual or potential beneficiaries of a scheme to which a complaint or reference relates, or\n(ii) persons appearing and being heard on behalf of such actual or potential beneficiaries,\nwho attend at the request of the Ombudsman any oral hearing held in connection with an investigation into the complaint or dispute.\n, and\n(b) at the end of subsection (3)(a), “ and ” is omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1993 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 158 in force at 1.6.1996 for specified purposes by S.I. 1996/1412, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 158 in force at 16.10.1996 for specified purposes by S.I. 1996/2637, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 158 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": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/26/section/158",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:14:42.886581+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}