1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Occupational Pension Schemes (Discharge of Liability) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 6th April 1997.
(1A) [F1[F2For the purposes of these Regulations, two people of the same sex are to be regarded as living together as if they were civil partners if, but only if, they would be regarded as living together as husband and wife were they instead two people of the opposite sex.]]
(2) In these Regulations—
“the 1995 Act" means the [F3Pensions] Act 1995;
“the 1993 Act" means the Pension Schemes Act 1993;
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“pensionable age" has the same meaning as in section 181 of the 1993 Act M1;
“relevant scheme" has the same meaning as in [F5section 37A] of the 1993 Act M2;
“supplementary credits" has the same meaning as in section 75 of the 1993 Act; and
“trustees", in relation to an occupational pension scheme which is not set up or established under a trust, means the managers of that scheme.
(3) In these Regulations a reference—
(a)to a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations;
(b)in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation; and
(c)in a regulation to a numbered Part is to the Part bearing that number in these Regulations.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 1(1A) omitted (E.W.) (13.3.2014) by virtue of The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/107), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 24(2) and omitted (S.) (16.12.2014) by virtue of The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3229), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 16(2)
F2Reg. 1(1A) omitted (E.W.) (13.3.2014) by virtue of The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/107), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 24(2)
F3Word in reg. 1(2) substituted (30.12.1999) by The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3198), regs. 1(1), 14(2)
F4Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (6.4.2012) by virtue of The Pensions (Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and Consultation by Employers Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/692), regs. 1(2), 7
F5Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (6.4.2016) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Abolition of Contracting-out for Salary Related Pension Schemes) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/200), arts. 1(2), 12(2)
Marginal Citations
M1The definition of “pensionable age" was substituted by the Pensions Act 1995, Schedule 4, paragraph 17.
M2Section 12C was inserted by section 136(5) of the Pensions Act 1995.