{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-personal-pension-protected-rights-premiums-regulations-1987/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-personal-pension-protected-rights-premiums-regulations-1987/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1111",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Pension Schemes (Personal Pension Protected Rights Premiums) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-personal-pension-protected-rights-premiums-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Pension Schemes (Personal Pension Protected Rights Premiums) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 4th January 1988.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Social Security Act 1986;\n“administrators”, in relation to a personal pension scheme, means the trustees or, if there are no trustees, the managers (except any trustee or manager who is resident outside the United Kingdom, or which, being a company, does not have its registered office in the United Kingdom), and any person who is resident in the United Kingdom, or which, being a company, has its registered office in the United Kingdom, who or which is authorised to act on behalf of the trustees, or, if there are no trustees, on behalf of the managers;\n“appropriate scheme” shall be construed in accordance with Part I of the Act;\n“the Board” means the Occupational Pensions Board;\n“child benefit” has the same meaning as in the Child Benefit Act 1975;\n“pensionable age” means, in the case of a man, 65, and in the case of a woman, 60;\n“premium” means personal pension protected rights premium;\n“scheme” means personal pension scheme;\n“trustees”, in relation to a scheme which is not set up or established under a trust, means the managers of the 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 a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these regulations bearing that number;\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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1111/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:24:50.931648+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."
}