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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014-contributions-equivalent-premium-consequential-provision-and-savings-amendment-order-2016/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/252",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Act 2014 (Contributions Equivalent Premium) (Consequential Provision) and (Savings) (Amendment) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014-contributions-equivalent-premium-consequential-provision-and-savings-amendment-order-2016",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1992 Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“the 1993 Act” means the Pension Schemes Act 1993;\n“the 2004 Act” means the Pensions Act 2004;\n“contracted-out employment” has the meaning given by section 8 (meaning of “contracted-out employment”, “guaranteed minimum pension” and “minimum payment”) of the 1993 Act;\n“contracted-out occupational pension scheme” is a scheme which satisfied the requirements in section 7B (meaning of “contracted-out scheme” and “appropriate scheme”, etc.) of the 1993 Act;\n“guaranteed minimum pension” has the meaning given by section 8 of the 1993 Act;\n“normal pension age” has the meaning given by section 180 (normal pension age) of the 1993 Act;\n“pensionable age” has the meaning given by section 181 (general interpretation) of the 1993 Act;\n“relevant person” means—\n(a) in a case where a transfer has been made in relation to the scheme under section 161 of the 2004 Act (effect of Board assuming responsibility for a scheme), the Board of the Pension Protection Fund (as defined in that Act); and\n(b) in all other cases, the trustees or managers of the scheme; and\n“the second abolition date” has the meaning given by section 7A of the 1993 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c.48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2004 c.35."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 8 was amended by paragraph 23 of Schedule 5 and part 7 of Schedule 7 to the Pensions Act 1995 (c.26), paragraph 34(a) of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c.2), paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to S.I. 2005/2050, paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 7(1) and (4), 46 and 47 of Schedule 4 and part 7 of Schedule 7 to the Pensions Act 2007 (c.22) (with the savings detailed in part 3 of Schedule 4 of that Act), paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 1 to the National Insurance Contributions Act 2008 (c.16), paragraphs 18 and 19 of Schedule 4 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c.30) (and paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to S.I. 2014/3229 in relation to Scotland) and paragraphs 1, 2 and 7 of Schedule 13 to the Pensions Act 2014."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 7B was inserted by paragraphs 1 and 6 of Schedule 13 to the Pensions Act 2014."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "The definition of “pensionable age” in section 181 was substituted by paragraph 17 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act 1995."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Section 7A was inserted by paragraphs 1 and 6 of Schedule 13 to the Pensions Act 2014."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/252/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:36.302648+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."
}