Section 3 Payment of pension

In article 75 of the principal Scheme^f1 (payment of pensions), for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:-

“(1)

The provisions of this article, other than paragraph (1A), are subject to the provisions of article 74A.

(1A)

Payment of a pension may be made provisionally or upon any other basis.

(1B)

Subject to paragraph (1C) pension may be paid weekly in advance.

(1C)

The Secretary of State may in any particular case or class of case determine that pension shall be paid in advance or in arrears or partly in advance and partly in arrears, and for a period different from that specified in paragraph (1B).

(1D)

Pension shall be paid by such means as appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate in the circumstances of the case or class of case.”.

In article 75(3)(a) of the principal scheme, for the words “paragraph (1)”, there shall be substituted the words “the preceding provisions of this article”.