{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/section-29.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/26",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995",
  "path": "section/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Persons disqualified for being trustees.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (5), a person is disqualified for being a trustee of any trust scheme if—\n(a) he has been convicted of any offence involving dishonesty or deception,\n(b) he has been made bankrupt or sequestration of his estate has been awarded and (in either case) he has not been discharged or he is the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order or an interim bankruptcy restrictions order,\n(ba) a moratorium period under a debt relief order (under Part 7A of the Insolvency Act 1986) applies in relation to him or he is the subject of a debt relief restrictions order or an interim debt relief restrictions order (under Schedule 4ZB of the Insolvency Act 1986),\n(c) where the person is a company, if any director of the company is disqualified under this section,\n(d) where the person is a Scottish partnership, if any partner is disqualified under this section,\n(e) he has made a composition contract or an arrangement with, or granted a trust deed for the behoof of, his creditors and has not been discharged in respect of it, or\n(f) he is subject to a disqualification order or disqualification undertaking under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 or the Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 or to an order made under section 429(2)(b) of the Insolvency Act 1986 (failure to pay under county court administration order).\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) paragraph (a) applies whether the conviction occurred before or after the coming into force of that subsection, but does not apply in relation to any conviction which is a spent conviction for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974,\n(b) paragraph (b) applies whether the adjudication of bankruptcy or the sequestration or the making of the bankruptcy restrictions order or an interim order occurred before or after the coming into force of that subsection,\n(c) paragraph (e) applies whether the composition contract or arrangement was made, or the trust deed was granted, before or after the coming into force of that subsection, and\n(d) paragraph (f) applies in relation to orders made before or after the coming into force of that subsection.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The Authority may, on the application of any person disqualified under this section—\n(a) give notice in writing to him waiving his disqualification,\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\neither generally or in relation to a particular scheme or particular description of schemes.\n(6) A notice given... at any time by virtue of subsection (5) cannot affect anything done before that time.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 29(1)(b) substituted (6.4.2016) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments) (Bankruptcy) and the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/481), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 11(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(1)(b) inserted (29.6.2006) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Disqualification from Office: General) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1722), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(1)(b) inserted (1.10.2012) by The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2404), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 34(3)(a) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 29(1)(ba) inserted (1.10.2012) by The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2404), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 34(3)(b) (with arts. 5, 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(1)(f) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 155(4) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(2)(b) inserted (29.6.2006) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Disqualification from Office: General) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1722), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 29(3)(4) repealed (6.4.2005) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(1), Sch. 13; S.I. 2005/695, art. 2(7), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 29(5)(b) repealed (6.4.2005) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(1), Sch. 13; S.I. 2005/695, art. 2(7), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 29(5) substituted (9.12.2005) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(1), Sch. 12 para. 45; S.I. 2005/3331, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(6) repealed (6.4.2005) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(1), Sch. 13; S.I. 2005/695, art. 2(7), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1986 c. 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1974 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 27-30 applied (with modifications) (11.11.1999 for specified purposes, 1.10.2000 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), s. 89(5)(a), Sch. 1 para. 1(1)(2)(b)(ii); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. Pt. 3 (as amended (9.12.2005) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(1), Sch. 12 para. 76(2)(b); S.I. 2005/3331, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 29 in force at 6.4.1997 by S.I. 1997/664, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/15",
      "affecting_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/26/section/29",
    "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."
  }
}