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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004-commencement-no-9-order-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/560",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Act 2004 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004-commencement-no-9-order-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "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 the provisions of the Act specified in Part 1 of the Schedule as 9th March 2006 for the purposes of conferring power to make regulations and 6th April 2006 for all other purposes. Those provisions are—\nsection 249(2) (requirement for knowledge and understanding: supplementary);\nsections 250 and 251 (payment of surplus to employer and transitional power to amend scheme).\nArticle 2(2) appoints the day for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act specified in Part 2 of the Schedule as 1st April 2006. Those provisions are—\nsection 151(8) (application for reconsideration: definition of “audited scheme accounts”), in so far as it is not already in force;\nsection 173(1)(b) (pension protection fund), in so far as it is not already in force;\nsection 177(9), in so far as it is not already in force (amount to be raised by the pension protection levies: definitions).\nArticle 2(3) appoints the day for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act specified in Part 3 of the Schedule as 6th April 2006. Those provisions include—\nsection 18 (pension liberation: interpretation), in so far as it is not already in force;\nsection 86 (disclosure for facilitating exercise of functions by other supervisory authorities), in so far as it is not already in force;\nsection 160(7) (transfer notice), in so far as it is not already in force;\nsection 165 (guaranteed minimum pensions);\nsection 169(1) and (2)(a) to (c) (discharge of liabilities in respect of compensation);\nsection 173(1)(a), and (f) and (3), in so far as it is not already in force (pension protection fund);\nsection 204 (sections 190 to 203: interpretation);\nsections 247, 248 and 249, in so far as it is not already in force (requirement for knowledge and understanding: individual trustees, corporate trustees and supplementary);\nsection 254 (representative of non-European scheme to be treated as a trustee);\nsection 267 (voluntary contributions);\nsection 268 (payments made by employers to personal pension schemes);\nsection 306(2)(j) and (k), (4) and (5) (overriding requirements);\nsection 321 (pre-consolidation amendments);\nSchedule 4, in so far as it is not already in force, and section 102 in so far as it is not already in force;\nSchedule 5, paragraph 18(2) (delegation), and section 109 in so far as it relates to that paragraph;\nprovisions in Schedule 12 (minor and consequential amendments), and section 319(1) in so far as it relates to those provisions;\nprovisions in Schedule 13 (repeals), and section 320 in so far as it relates to those provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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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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