Article 24 Amendments to the Equality Act 2010 (Age Exceptions for Pension Schemes) Order 2010

at the appropriate place, insert—

• ““abolition date” means the day appointed for the commencement of section 15(1) of the Pensions Act 2007^f2;”

for the definition of “contracted-out rights” substitute—

• ““Contracted-out rights” are such rights under, or derived from, an occupational pension scheme as fall within the following categories—

  1. (a)

     entitlement to payment of, or accrued rights to, guaranteed minimum pensions; or

  2. (b)

     section 9(2B) rights;”,

in the definition of “protected rights”, at the end insert “as it had effect immediately prior to the abolition date”, and

in the definition of “section 9(2B) rights” at the end insert “where the transfer took place before the abolition date”.