Regulation 2 Removal of requirement for Secretary of State's approval

(1)

The powers conferred on the British Steel Corporation by regulation 2 of the Iron and Steel (Pension Schemes) Regulations 1967^f1 (as substituted by regulation 3 of the Iron and Steel (Pension Schemes)Regulations 1970^f2)for the purposes of section 40(1)(a) of the Iron and Steel Act 1949 to establish and administer pension schemes and to participate in pension schemes shall be exercisable without the Secretary of State's approval being first obtained.

(2)

Accordingly the Iron and Steel (Pension Schemes) Regulations 1967 shall have effect as if:

(a)

in regulation 2 (as so substituted) of those regulations the words “which has been approved by the Minister” and the words “with the like approval” were omitted;

(b)

in regulation 3 (as originally made) the words “approved by the Minister”were omitted in the two places in which those words appear; and

(c)

in regulation 9 (as added by regulation 5 of the Iron and Steel (Pension Schemes) Regulations 1970) the words “approved by the Minister and” were omitted.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: (1967 II, p. 3215).
f2: (1970 II, p. 3933).