{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-appropriate-schemes-regulations-1988/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-appropriate-schemes-regulations-1988/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/137",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Pension Schemes (Appropriate Schemes) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-appropriate-schemes-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Claim for the purpose of section 3(1)(b) of the Act",
  "text": "For the purpose of section 3(1)(b) of the Act, £1.00 shall be substituted for 2 per cent. of the earnings referred to in section 3(1)(a) if 2 per cent. of those earnings is less than £1.00 and the earner or his widow or her widower, or the administrators of the relevant scheme in respect of whom the minimum contributions are to be paid, applies or apply in writing in such form as the Secretary of State may in his discretion accept.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 1.7.1988, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/137",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal Pension Schemes (Appropriate Schemes) Regulations 1988"
    },
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/137/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:36.047018+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."
}