{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2007/schedule-4/paragraph-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2007/schedule-4/paragraph-35.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/22",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/35",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 181 insert—\n“Interpretation of references to money purchase contracted-out schemes or appropriate schemes after abolition date\n181A (1) This section applies for the interpretation of this Act on and after the abolition date.\n(2) An occupational pension scheme was a money purchase contracted-out scheme at a time before the abolition date if, at that time, the scheme was contracted-out by virtue of satisfying section 9(3) (as it then had effect).\n(3) A money purchase contracted-out scheme was, at a time before the abolition date, a contracted-out scheme in relation to an earner's employment if it was, at that time, specified in a contracting-out certificate in relation to that employment; and references to the contracting-out of a scheme are, in relation to a money purchase contracted-out scheme, references to its inclusion in such a certificate.\n(4) Any reference to a contracting-out certificate is, in relation to a money purchase contracted-out scheme, a reference to a certificate issued by virtue of section 7, as it had effect before the abolition date, in relation to the employment of an earner in employed earner's employment which was contracted-out by reference to that scheme.\n(5) Any certificate so issued that was, at a time before the abolition date, in force in respect of an employed earner's employment is to be taken as conclusive that the employment was, at that time, contracted-out employment.\n(6) A personal pension scheme was an appropriate scheme at a time before the abolition date if, at that time, there was in force a certificate issued under section 7(1)(b) (as it then had effect) stating that the scheme was an appropriate scheme; and “appropriate scheme certificate” means such a certificate.\n(7) Any appropriate scheme certificate in force in relation to a scheme at any time before the abolition date is to be taken as conclusive that the scheme was, at that time, an appropriate scheme.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/22/schedule/4/paragraph/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:35.975623+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."
}