The Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations 1996

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 1996-12-11
State In force
Department King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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Made: 11th December 1996

Laid before Parliament: 18th December 1996

Coming into force: 6th April 1997

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PART I — GENERAL

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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PART II — RESTRICTIONS ON EMPLOYER-RELATED INVESTMENTS

Schemes to which regulation 5 applies

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Connected and associated persons

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Prescription of investments as employer-related investments

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Restrictions on employer-related investments

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Investments to which restrictions do not apply

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Transitional provisions

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Loans that become employer-related

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Multi-employer schemes

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PART III — ... STATEMENT OF INVESTMENT PRINCIPLES

Exemptions from section 35 of the 1995 Act

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Multi-employer schemes: modification of section 35 of the 1995 Act

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PART IV — AMENDMENTS

Amendments of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Minimum Funding Requirement and Actuarial Valuations) Regulations 1996

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PART V — REVOCATIONS

Revocations

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SCHEDULE — REVOCATIONS

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Statutory Instrument Number Statutory Instrument Provision revoked
S.I. 1992/246 The Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment of Scheme’s Resources) Regulations 1992 The whole of the Regulations
S.I. 1994/1062 The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1994 Schedule 2, paragraph 33

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Oliver Heald — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Social Security — 11th December 1996

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: Section 124(1) is cited because of the meaning there given to “prescribed” and “regulations”.

[^f00002]: 1995 c. 26.

[^f00003]: See section 120(1) of the Pensions Act 1995.

[^f00005]: 1985 c. 6. Section 736 was substituted, together with section 736A, by section 144(1) of the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40).

[^f00007]: 1988 c. 1.

[^f00008]: 1986 c. 45.

[^f00009]: 1985 c. 66.

[^f00015]: 1993 c. 48.

[^f00016]: S.I. 1992/246.

[^f00017]: S.I. 1996/1536.

Extension of the meaning of “employer”

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Editorial notes

Additional content of statement of investment principles

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