Section 68 — Equality Act 2010: Sex equality rule: consequential alteration of schemes

Sex equality rule: consequential alteration of schemes 68 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.