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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-perpetuities-regulations-1990/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-perpetuities-regulations-1990/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1143",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Perpetuities) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-perpetuities-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Schemes that cease to qualify under section 69 of the 1973 Act",
  "text": "An occupational pension scheme that ceases to be contracted-out or to satisfy the requirements of any of paragraphs (2) to (6) of regulation 3, and a personal pension scheme that ceases to be an appropriate scheme or to satisfy the requirements of regulation 4, will nevertheless be treated as continuing to be a scheme to which section 163 of the Act applies for a further period of 2 years from the cesser, or for such longer period as the Secretary of State considers reasonable in the case of the particular scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 substituted (12.5.1994) by The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1062), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 24(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 substituted (6.4.1997) by S.I. 1996/2131, reg. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2131",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Preservation of Benefit and Perpetuities) (Amendments) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1143/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:19:55.700656+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."
}