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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004-commencement-no-10-and-saving-provision-order-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2272",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Act 2004 (Commencement No. 10 and Saving Provision) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004-commencement-no-10-and-saving-provision-order-2006",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes further provision for the coming into force of provisions of the Pensions Act 2004 (c.35) (“the Act”).\nArticle 2(1) appoints the day for the coming into force of sections 177(5) and (8) and 178(5) of the Act (amounts to be raised by the pension protection levies and the levy ceiling) as 1st September 2006.\nArticle 2(2) appoints the day for the coming into force of sections 177(4) and 178(4), (7) and (9) of the Act as 1st September 2006 for the purpose of conferring power to make regulations and 1st October 2006 for all other purposes.\nArticle 2(3) appoints the day for the coming into force of paragraph 11 of Schedule 12 to the Act (amendment of section 56 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c.48)), in so far as it is not already in force, and section 319(1) in so far as it relates to that paragraph as 1st October 2006 for the purpose of conferring power to make regulations and 1st November 2006 for all other purposes.\nArticle 2(4) appoints the day for the coming into force of section 178(6) of the Act (the levy ceiling) as 1st October 2006 for the purpose of conferring power to make an order and 1st December 2006 for all other purposes.\nArticle 2(5) appoints the day for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act specified in Part 1 of the Schedule as 1st November 2006 for the purpose of conferring power to make regulations and 6th April 2007 for all other purposes. Those provisions are—\nsection 153(4) and (7) (closed schemes);\nsection 155(1) and (4) (treatment of closed schemes);\nsection 156(1), (2), (5) and (6) (valuations of closed schemes);\nsection 157(1), (7) and (9) (applications and notifications where closed schemes have insufficient assets).\nArticle 2(6) appoints the day for the coming into force of sections 117(7) and 178 of the Act (administration levy and the levy ceiling), in so far as those provisions are not already in force as 1st January 2007 for the purpose of conferring power to make regulations or, as the case may be, an order, and 1st March 2007 for all other purposes.\nArticle 2(7) appoints the day for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act specified in Part 2 of the Schedule as 6th April 2007. Those provisions are—\nsection 132, in so far as it is not already in force (assessment periods);\nsection 153, in so far as it is not already in force (closed schemes);\nsection 154, in so far as it is not already in force (requirement to wind up schemes with sufficient assets to meet protected liabilities);\nsection 155, in so far as it is not already in force (treatment of closed schemes);\nsection 156, in so far as it is not already in force (valuations of closed schemes);\nsection 157, in so far as it is not already in force (applications and notifications where closed schemes have insufficient assets);\nsection 158 (duty to assume responsibility for closed schemes);\nsection 159 (closed schemes: further assessment periods);\nsection 160, in so far as it is not already in force (transfer notice);\nsection 172, in so far as it is not already in force (relationship with fraud compensation regime);\na repeal in Schedule 13 (repeals), and section 320 in so far as it relates to that provision.\nArticle 3 contains a saving provision, which preserves the application of the definition of “minimum funding requirement” in section 124(1) of the Pensions Act 1995 (c.26) for the purposes of the transitional period contained in Schedule 4 to the Occupational Pension Schemes (Scheme Funding) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3377).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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