Article 4

amends section 6 of the said Act of 1970 to provide that an equality clause and the provisions of section 3(4) thereof shall operate in relation to terms relating to membership of an occupational pension scheme (within the meaning of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975) so far as those terms relate to any matter in respect of which the scheme has to conform with the equal access requirements of Part IV of the said Act of 1975;

provides that the said Act of 1970 shall have effect as set out in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Act,

section 8(6) of the Act (as brought into operation by Article 3 above for purposes other than those mentioned in the preceding paragraph) shall have effect as if for paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act there were substituted the paragraph set out in the Appendix to this Order;

section 83(1) of the Act shall have effect as if the reference in paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 4 thereto to section 6(1A)(b) of the Equal Pay Act 1970 were a reference to section 6(1A).