C1Part 5Work
Chapter 3Equality of terms
Sex equality
68Sex equality rule: consequential alteration of schemes
1
This section applies if the trustees or managers of an occupational pension scheme do not have power to make sex equality alterations to the scheme.
2
This section also applies if the trustees or managers of an occupational pension scheme have power to make sex equality alterations to the scheme but the procedure for doing so—
a
is liable to be unduly complex or protracted, or
b
involves obtaining consents which cannot be obtained or which can be obtained only with undue delay or difficulty.
3
The trustees or managers may by resolution make sex equality alterations to the scheme.
4
Sex equality alterations may have effect in relation to a period before the date on which they are made.
5
Sex equality alterations to an occupational pension scheme are such alterations to the scheme as may be required to secure conformity with a sex equality rule.
Pt. 5 applied (1.8.2011) by the Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1771), regs. 3-5