{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004/section-204",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004/section-204.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/35",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004",
  "path": "section/204",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "204",
  "heading": "Sections 190 to 203: interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of sections 190 to 203.\n(2) “Document” includes information recorded in any form, and any reference to production of a document, in relation to information recorded otherwise than in a legible form, is to producing a copy of the information—\n(a) in a legible form, or\n(b) in a form from which it can readily be produced in a legible form.\n(3) Where the Board has assumed responsibility for a scheme—\n(a) any reference to the Board’s functions in relation to the scheme includes a reference to the functions which it has by virtue of having assumed responsibility for the scheme, and\n(b) any reference to a trustee, manager, professional adviser or employer in relation to the scheme is to be read as a reference to a person who held that position in relation to the scheme before the Board assumed responsibility for it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 modified (8.3.2005 for specified purposes, 6.4.2005 in so far as not already in force) by The Pension Protection Fund (Partially Guaranteed Schemes) (Modification) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/277), regs. 1(1), 2-11"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 2 modified in part (9.3.2005 for specified purposes, 1.4.2005 for specified purposes, 6.4.2005 in so far as not already in force (except ch. 4)) by The Pension Protection Fund (Multi-employer Schemes) (Modification) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/441), regs. 1, 2-60, 71, 72"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 204(1)(2) in force at 6.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/275, art. 2(7), Sch. Pt. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 204(3) in force at 6.4.2006 by S.I. 2006/560, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/35/section/204",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:45.114281+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."
  }
}