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Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999

Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999

1999 CHAPTER 30

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Part II: Pensions: General
Schedule 2: Miscellaneous amendments
Paragraph 3: Extended meaning of “personal pension scheme”

The current definition of a personal pension in section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 is couched in terms of a scheme capable of providing benefits on death or retirement in respect of employed earners. This definition could exclude a scheme (including a stakeholder pension scheme – see commentary on Part I) set up exclusively for a group of self-employed earners. That would leave some self-employed earners with less statutory protection than that enjoyed by employed earners. This amendment addresses that.

As a result of the amendment, parts of sections 73, 96 and 181 of the Pensions Schemes Act 1993, and part of section 126 of the Scotland Act 1998, are repealed by Part I of Schedule 13 (introduced by section 88).

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