{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-protected-rights-regulations-1987/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-protected-rights-regulations-1987/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1117",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Protected Rights) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-protected-rights-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Protected Rights) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 27th July 1987 for the purposes of personal pension schemes and on 6th April 1988 for the purposes of occupational pension schemes.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act”means the Social Security Act 1986;\n“the Board”means the Occupational Pensions Board;\n“child benefit”has the same meaning as in the Child Benefit Act 1975;\n“member”means member of an occupational pension scheme or a personal pension scheme;\n“money purchase contracted-out scheme”has the same meaning as in the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;\n“pensionable age”means, in the case of a man, 65, and in the case of a woman, 60;\n“scheme”means occupational pension scheme or personal pension scheme;\nand other expressions have the same meaning as in the Act.\n(3) In these Regulations, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference—\n(a) to Schedule 1 to the Act includes a reference to that Schedule as modified by section 32(2B) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;\n(b) in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number; and\n(c) in a paragraph to a lettered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph of that paragraph bearing that letter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 61."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1062",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1062",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1062",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1117/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:24:46.707806+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."
}