{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-amalgamation-of-railways-pension-funds-no-1-order-1970/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1970/477",
  "legislation_title": "The British Transport (Amalgamation of Railways' Pension Funds) (No. 1) Order 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-amalgamation-of-railways-pension-funds-no-1-order-1970",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "General meetings, officers, accounts",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of Schedules 3, 4 and 5 to this Order shall have effect with respect to general meetings of members of the amalgamated fund, the officers of the amalgamated fund and the accounts (including audit of accounts) of the amalgamated fund.\n(2) It shall not be necessary after the amalgamation date to hold separate meetings of the members of the several sections of the amalgamated fund under the provisions applicable thereto by virtue of Article 4 of this Order, but matters specifically relating to a section (including, in particular, the appointment of contributors' or members' committee-men to the Sectional Committee and the alteration of the rules or scheme of the section) may be dealt with at a General Meeting of members of the amalgamated fund. Where such matters are so dealt with, they shall be determined by the members of the section in question voting as a separate group at the General Meeting, and any specific provisions or rules applicable to that section by virtue of Article 4 of this Order and relating to voting by members in general meeting or otherwise to the taking by them of decisions on the matters aforesaid shall have effect in relation to such determination by the members of that section voting as a separate group as aforesaid, but where in any year the election of contributors' or members' committee-men to a Sectional Committee is to take place at the Annual General Meeting of the amalgamated fund, the names of the candidates nominated, together with their consents in writing to act, shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the amalgamated fund during the first ten days of May in that year.\n(3) It shall not be necessary after the amalgamation date to appoint separate secretaries, actuaries or auditors of the several sections of the amalgamated fund but the secretary, the actuary or actuaries and the auditors of the amalgamated fund may act in such capacities in relation to each such section and may exercise the functions of those officers under the provisions applicable to such section by virtue of Article 4 of this Order.\n(4) The provisions relating to the preparation and audit of the accounts and applicable to the existing funds immediately before the amalgamation date shall cease to have effect on that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/477/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:01:13.313076+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}