These Regulations prescribe the description of schemes which are exempt from the requirement in section 252(2) of the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35) (“the Act”) that trustees or managers of an occupational pension scheme with its main administration in the United Kingdom must not accept funding payments unless the scheme is established under irrevocable trust. These Regulations also prescribe the description of a scheme which is exempt from the requirement in section 255(1) of the Act, that an occupational pension scheme with its main administration in the United Kingdom must be limited to retirement-benefit activities.