Pensions Act 2008 (c. 30)

Part 1 U.K. Pension scheme membership for jobholders

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (temp. 1.7.2012 to 30.6.2020) by The Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1388), art. 2 (with saving in art. 5)

Chapter 1 E+W+S Employers' duties

Qualifying schemes and automatic enrolment schemes E+W+S

18 Occupational pension schemes E+W+S

For the purposes of this Part, each of these is an occupational pension scheme—

(a) an occupational pension scheme within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48) that has its main administration in the United Kingdom;

F1 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c) a pension scheme that is prescribed or is of a prescribed description and that has its main administration elsewhere than in [F2 the United Kingdom].

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 18(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/192), regs. 1, 6(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in s. 18(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/192), regs. 1, 6(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Commencement Information

I1 S. 18 wholly in force at 30.6.2012; s. 18 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 149(2)(k); s. 18 in force so far as not already in force at 30.6.2012 by S.I. 2012/1682, art. 2(1)(2)(a), Sch. 1