{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-minimum-contributions-to-appropriate-personal-pension-schemes-order-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-minimum-contributions-to-appropriate-personal-pension-schemes-order-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1056",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Minimum Contributions to Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-minimum-contributions-to-appropriate-personal-pension-schemes-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appropriate age-related percentage",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 45 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (amount of minimum contributions) the appropriate age-related percentages in respect of earners in the tax years 1997—98 and 1998–99 are those specified in the Table in the Schedule to this Order by reference to their ages on the last day of the preceding tax year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (6.4.1999) by The Social Security (Minimum Contributions to Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/944), arts. 1, 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1056/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:45:27.377223+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."
}