The Occupational Pension Schemes (Climate Change Governance and Reporting) (Miscellaneous Provisions and Amendments) Regulations 2021

Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 857

Pensions

The Occupational Pension Schemes (Climate Change Governance and Reporting) (Miscellaneous Provisions and Amendments) Regulations 2021

Made

15th July 2021

Laid before Parliament

19th July 2021

Coming into force

1st October 2021

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 113(1)(d) and 182(2) and (3) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993(1) and sections 60(2)(h), 247(4)(c), 248(5)(c), 315(2) and (5) and 318(1) of the Pensions Act 2004(2), makes the following Regulations.

This instrument contains only regulations consequential upon section 124 of the Pension Schemes Act 2021(3) and the Occupational Pension Schemes (Climate Change Governance and Reporting) Regulations 2021(4) and comes into force within 6 months of the coming into force of those enactments(5).

(1)

1993 c. 48. Section 113(1) was amended by the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), section 52(1).

(2)

2004 c. 35. Section 60(2) was amended by the Pension Schemes Act 2021 (c. 1), section 123 and Schedule 10, Part 2, paragraph 9. The application of section 248 is modified in relation to the National Employment Savings Trust Corporation by S.I. 2010/8. Section 318(1) is cited for the meaning given to “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(3)

2021 c. 1.

(4)

S.I. 2021/839.

(5)

See section 185(2)(e) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48) and section 317(2)(d) of the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35).