{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-order-1971/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-order-1971/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1128",
  "legislation_title": "The British Transport (Pensions of Employees) Order 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-order-1971",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Removal of requirement for Ministerial consent in connection with pension schemes of national transport authorities",
  "text": "(1) Article 17 of the British Transport Reorganisation (Pensions of Employees) (No. 3) Order 1962 and Article 12 of the British Transport (Pensions of Employees) (No. 1) Order 1968 (which prohibit national transport authorities from paying pensions or entering into obligations under pension schemes without the consent of the Secretary of State) are hereby revoked.\n(2) Where the terms of a pension scheme, the participants in which include employees of a national transport authority, provide for the making of changes in that scheme with the consent or approval of the Secretary of State or of a Minister of the Crown whose functions are now vested in the Secretary of State, or prohibit the making of such changes without such consent or approval, the requirement of those terms (howsoever expressed) for such consent or approval to the making of such changes shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1962 III, p.3866)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "(1968 III, p. 5450)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1128/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:43:16.545534+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."
}