Schedule 4: Abolition of contracting-out for defined contribution pension schemes Amendments to Pensions Act 1995
314.Paragraph 36 amends section 149 of the PA1995. Section 149 gives a power to the Secretary of State to make regulations providing for schemes which provide both pensions capable of being contracted out by virtue of section 9(2) and pensions capable of being contracted out by virtue of section 9(3) to be treated as two separate schemes. The effect of the amendment is that schemes which provide both pensions capable of being contracted out by virtue of section 9(2), and pensions satisfying the requirements mentioned in new section 25A(3) are to be treated as two separate schemes for the purposes of Part 3 of the PSA1993.