SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5 E+W+S Employment-related Schemes for Pensions or other Benefits: Equal Treatment for Men and Women

Part I E+W+S Compliance by Schemes

Prospective

Extension of ban on compulsory membership E+W+S

8 E+W+S[F1 Section 160(1) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993] (which renders void any provision making membership of a pension scheme compulsory for an employed earner) shall apply in relation to a self-employed earner as it applies in relation to an employed earner, but with the substitution for references to a personal pension scheme of references to an employment-related benefit scheme which would be such a pension scheme if self-employed earners were regarded as employed earners.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 5 para. 8 substituted (7.2.1994) by 1993 c. 48, s. 190, Sch. 7 para. 2(c); S.I. 1994/86, art. 2