{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-regulations-2005/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-regulations-2005/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/597",
  "legislation_title": "The Register of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Pension Tracing Service",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall provide an information service to be known as the Pension Tracing Service.\n(2) An application may be made to the Secretary of State for information from the Pension Tracing Service relating to one or more registrable schemes.\n(3) The application referred to in paragraph (2) may only be made by–\n(a) any person who is, or may be, or may become, entitled to benefit under the scheme in question, or\n(b) any person acting on behalf of such a person\nand “applicant” shall be construed accordingly.\n(4) Following receipt of an application made under paragraph (2) containing sufficient information to enable the Secretary of State to identify–\n(a) the scheme or schemes in question, or\n(b) one or more schemes which in the opinion of the Secretary of State may be the scheme or schemes in question,\nthe Secretary of State shall provide sufficient information relating to that scheme or those schemes to the applicant to enable the applicant to contact the scheme or schemes.\n(5) The Secretary of State shall have the function of publishing (from time to time and in such manner as is in his opinion appropriate) details of the manner in which an application under paragraph (2) is to be made.\n(6) Where the Secretary of State has authorised a person to carry on the Pension Tracing Service on his behalf, the provisions of this regulation and regulation 5 shall apply to the authorised person as they apply to the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/597/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:06:13.071851+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."
}