Stay ahead of the mass of legislation

Over the next year or two, there is a huge array of legislation affecting pensions that advisers need to be aware of. Within months of the Pensions Act 1995 coming into force, the Government published the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill. This Bill, enacted last November, contains a large number of amendments to the Pensions Act, as well as the framework for stakeholder pension schemes. No sooner as this major piece of legislation, most of which has not yet commenced, was on the statute book, than the Government issued the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill. This latte...