{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/section-89",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/section-89.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/26",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995",
  "path": "section/89",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "89",
  "heading": "Application of further provisions to money purchase schemes.",
  "text": "(1) In the case of money purchase schemes falling within a prescribed class or description, regulations may—\n(a) provide for any of the provisions of Part 3 of the Pensions Act 2004 to apply, or apply with prescribed modifications (in spite of anything in that Part), and\n(b) provide for any of the provisions of sections 87 and 88 to apply with prescribed modifications or not to apply,\nto such extent as may be prescribed.\n(2) Regulations may provide for any of the provisions of section 75 to apply, or apply with prescribed modifications, to money purchase schemes to such extent as may be prescribed (in spite of anything in that section), and the power conferred by this subsection includes power to apply section 75 in circumstances other than those in which the scheme is being wound up or a relevant ... event occurs (within the meaning of that section).\n(3) Where a pension scheme is divided into sections, each section that is a collective money purchase scheme for the purposes of Part 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 2021 (see section 1(2)(b) of that Act) is to be treated for the purposes of this section as a separate money purchase scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2005) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(1), Sch. 12 para. 66(a)(i); S.I. 2005/695, art. 2(7), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2005) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(1), Sch. 12 para. 66(a)(ii); S.I. 2005/695, art. 2(7), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 89(2) repealed (6.4.2005) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(1), Sch. 12 para. 66(b), Sch. 13; S.I. 2005/695, art. 2(7), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 89(3) inserted (11.2.2021 for specified purposes, 1.8.2022 in so far as not already in force) by Pension Schemes Act 2021 (c. 1), s. 131(1)(3)(a), Sch. 3 para. 10; S.I. 2022/721, regs. 1(2), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 89 applied (24.7.2014) by The Pensions Act 2011 (Transitional, Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1711), regs. 1(1), 68"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 89 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": "S. 89 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": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2015/8",
      "affecting_title": "Pension Schemes Act 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2015/8",
      "affecting_title": "Pension Schemes Act 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/26/section/89",
    "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."
  }
}