{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/26",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Removal or suspension of trustees: consequences.",
  "text": "(1) A person who purports to act as trustee of a trust scheme while prohibited from being a trustee of the scheme under section 3 or 3A or suspended in relation to the scheme under section 4 is guilty of an offence and liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, and\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or imprisonment or both.\n(2) An offence under subsection (1) may be charged by reference to any day or longer period of time; and a person may be convicted of a second or subsequent offence under that subsection by reference to any period of time following the preceding conviction of the offence.\n(3) Things done by a person purporting to act as trustee of a trust scheme while prohibited from being a trustee of the scheme under section 3 or 3A or suspended in relation to the scheme under section 4 are not invalid merely because of that prohibition or suspension.\n(4) Nothing in section 3 , 3A or 4 or this section affects the liability of any person for things done, or omitted to be done, by him while purporting to act as trustee of a trust scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1) inserted (11.9.2014) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(1), Sch. 19 para. 2(a); S.I. 2014/2377, art. 2(1)(a)(i)(2)(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3) inserted (11.9.2014) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(1), Sch. 19 para. 2(a); S.I. 2014/2377, art. 2(1)(a)(i)(2)(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 6(4) inserted (11.9.2014) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(1), Sch. 19 para. 2(b); S.I. 2014/2377, art. 2(1)(a)(i)(2)(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 3-11 modified in part (11.11.1999 for specified purposes; 1.10.2000 in so far as not already in force) by the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), s. 89(5)(a), Sch. 1 para. 1(1)(2)(b)(i); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. Pt. III (as amended (6.4.2005) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(1), Sch. 12 para. 76(2)(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at 6.4.1997 by S.I. 1997/664, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/26/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:00.251754+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."
  }
}