{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-provisional-approval-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-provisional-approval-regulations-1987/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1765",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Pension Schemes (Provisional Approval) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-pension-schemes-provisional-approval-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisional approval: conditions",
  "text": "Where an application to the Board for their approval of a scheme under section 19 of the Act is made before 1st August 1989 and is accompanied by—\n(a) written undertakings by the scheme administrator that—\n(i) to the best of his belief the application for approval, and the documents which accompany it, are in such form and contain such information that the scheme may be approved,\n(ii) the scheme does not make provision for any benefit other than those mentioned in sections 21 to 26 of the Act and that no member of the scheme will have a beneficial interest in the assets of the scheme, and\n(iii) the scheme will be administered in accordance with the provisions contained in Chapter II of Part I of the Act and any regulations made thereunder; and\n(b) a written undertaking by the person who has power to amend the rules of the scheme that he will comply with a notice given by the Board under regulation 4;\nthe Board may grant approval of the scheme provisionally notwithstanding that they have not satisfied themselves that the scheme complies with sections 20 to 30 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/1437",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal Pension Schemes (Provisional Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1988"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1765/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:19:29.500737+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."
}