Over the past year, the Government has consulted on two sets of miscellaneous amendments to Occupational Pensions Regulations. Changes are also needed to the Stakeholder Pensions Regulations following the removal of the requirement for most employers to designate a stakeholder pension. Since all these changes will come into force on 6 April 2013, we have merged all the amendments into one set of Occupational and Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013.