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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/30",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Quality requirement: UK defined benefits schemes",
  "text": "A defined benefits scheme that has its main administration in the United Kingdom satisfies the quality requirement in relation to a jobholder if it satisfies the test scheme standard in relation to that jobholder.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 21 substituted (6.4.2016 unless brought into force earlier by an order under s. 56(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 13 para. 82"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2015/8",
      "affecting_title": "Pension Schemes Act 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/30/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:33.323762+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."
  }
}