{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004/schedule-12/paragraph-77",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004/schedule-12/paragraph-77.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/35",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/77",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Schedule 5 (pension credits: mode of discharge) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 8(1)(b), for the words from “section 56” to “related schemes)” substitute “ Part 3 of the Pensions Act 2004 (scheme funding) ”.\n(3) After paragraph 13 insert—\n“13A The provisions of this Schedule are subject to—\n(a) section 73A(3) and (6) of the Pensions Act 1995 (prohibition on new members during winding up of scheme: exception for discharge of pension credit derived from the scheme), and\n(b) section 133(2) and (8) of the Pensions Act 2004 (prohibition on new members during an assessment period in relation to a scheme: exception for discharge of pension credit derived from the scheme).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 77(1)(3) in force at 6.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/695, art. 2(7), Sch. 1 (with arts. 4-6, Sch. 2, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 77(2) in force at 4.12.2005 for specified purposes and 30.12.2005 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2005/3331, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2015/8",
      "affecting_title": "Pension Schemes Act 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/35/schedule/12/paragraph/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:45.114281+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}