The Pensions Regulator
The statutory body responsible for regulating UK workplace pensions, established by Pensions Act 2004. Powers include issuing improvement notices, contribution notices, and financial support directions.
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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is the UK regulator of work-based pension schemes. It works with trustees, employers, pension specialists and business advisers, giving guidance on what is expected of them, and is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions.
TPR produces codes of practice — such as its general code of practice and its defined benefit funding code of practice — setting out how scheme trustees and employers are expected to comply with their statutory duties, including those relating to scheme funding, automatic enrolment, and notifiable events.
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