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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/839/regulation/14</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Occupational Pension Schemes (Climate Change Governance and Reporting) Regulations 2021</dc:title><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">PENSIONS</dc:subject><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2024-05-20</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2023-02-03</dct:valid>
					<dc:description>These Regulations impose requirements on trustees of certain occupational pension schemes, including trustees of authorised master trust schemes and trustees of schemes authorised to provide collective money purchase benefits, with a view to ensuring that there is effective governance of those schemes with respect to the effects of climate change. The Regulations also impose associated reporting and publication requirements on the trustees.</dc:description>
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<P2para><Text>This regulation applies where any provision under this Part authorises or requires—</Text>
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<Text>a notification to be given or sent to a person; or</Text>
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<Text>a document of any other description (including a copy of the document) to be sent to a person.</Text>
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<Text>The notification or document may be given or sent to the person in question—</Text>
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<Text>by delivering it to the person;</Text>
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<Text>by leaving it at the person’s proper address; or</Text>
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<Text>by sending it by post to the person at that address.</Text>
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<Text>The notification or document may be given or sent to a body corporate by being given or sent to the secretary or clerk of that body.</Text>
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<Text>The notification or document may be given or sent to a firm by being given or sent to—</Text>
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<Text>a partner in the firm; or</Text>
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<Text>The notification or document may be given or sent to an unincorporated body or association by being given or sent to a member of the governing body of the body or association.</Text>
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<Text>For the purposes of this regulation, the proper address of a person is—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>in the case of a body corporate, the address of the registered or principal office of the body;</Text>
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<Text>in any other case, the last known address of the person in question.</Text>
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<Text>In the case of—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>a company registered outside the United Kingdom;</Text>
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<Text>the references in paragraph (6) to its principal office include references to its principal office within the United Kingdom (if any).</Text>
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<Text>In this regulation, “notification” includes notice and references to sending a document to a person include references to making an application to that person.</Text>
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