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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/35",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision relating to pensions and financial planning for retirement and provision relating to entitlement to bereavement payments, and for connected purposes.\n[18th November 2004]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified (1.4.2008) by The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/576), art. 1(3), Sch. 4 para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: power to modify conferred (26.11.2008) by Pensions Act 2008 (c. 30), s. 146(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act modified (21.2.2009) by The Banking Act 2009 (Parts 2 and 3 Consequential Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/317), arts. 1, 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (8.2.2011) by The Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/245), reg. 1, Sch. 6 Pt. 1 (with reg. 27(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act: power to modify conferred (11.9.2014) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), ss. 45(1), 56(1); S.I. 2014/2377, art. 2(1)(a)(i)(2)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (8.7.2021) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/716), reg. 2, Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3 (with reg. 5) (as amended (4.1.2024) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1399), regs. 1(2), 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act modified (1.8.2022) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Modifications and Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/337), regs. 1(3), 14"
    }
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