{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1979",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Personal Pension Schemes (Appropriate Schemes) Regulations 1997",
  "text": "(1) The Personal Pension Schemes (Appropriate Schemes) Regulations 1997 are amended in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation), omit the definitions of “deposit-taker”, “EEA State”, “Friendly Society”, “Home state regulator”, “open-ended investment company”, “recognised scheme”, “UCITS” and “unit trust scheme”.\n(3) For regulation 2 (forms of schemes which may be appropriate schemes), substitute—\n“Forms of schemes which may be appropriate schemes\n2. A personal pension scheme can be an appropriate scheme only if it is a scheme which is, or is treated as, registered under section 153 of the Finance Act 2004 (registration of pension schemes).”.\n(4) Omit regulation 3 (persons who and bodies which may establish schemes).\n(5) Omit sub-paragraphs (e) and (f) of regulation 4(1) (requirements in respect of an application for an appropriate scheme certificate).\n(6) In regulation 6 (requirement to give information)—\n(a) at the end of paragraph (b)(ii), insert “and”, and\n(b) omit paragraph (b)(iii).\n(7) Omit regulation 18 (cancellation of membership of interest-bearing account-funded appropriate personal pension schemes).\n(8) Omit Schedules 1 (kinds of unit trust scheme that may be an appropriate scheme) and 2 (information to be included in notice).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/470; relevant amending instruments are S.I.s 2001/943 and 3649 and 2006/147."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "As amended by S.I.s 2001/3649 and 2006/147. All the definitions omitted except “Friendly Society” were inserted by S.I. 2006/147."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "As amended by S.I.s 2001/943 and 3649 and 2006/147."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2004 c.12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "As amended by S.I.s 2001/3649 and 2006/147."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "As amended by S.I. 2001/3649."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1979/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:26:21.710669+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."
}