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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008-abolition-of-safeguarded-rights-consequential-order-2009/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/598",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Act 2008 (Abolition of Safeguarded Rights) (Consequential) Order 2009",
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  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006",
  "text": "(1) The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 are amended in accordance with this article.\n(2) In Schedule 2 (pension schemes) in paragraph 1(5) (interpretation) in the definition of “contracted-out rights”, omit “but not safeguarded rights (within the meaning of section 68A of the Pension Schemes Act 1993)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/1031."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “contracted-out rights” was inserted by S.I. 2006/2931."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/598/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:15:29.362231+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."
}