Explanatory note

Section 17(2) of the Social Security Act 1986, as amended by the Social Security Act 1988, empowers the Secretary of State to make regulations modifying the effect of specified Acts in consequence of the provisions of Part I of the 1986 Act.

In consequence of the provisions of section 15 of the 1986 Act (terms of contracts of employment or pension schemes which restrict choice of pension schemes to be void), these Regulations revoke section 27(5) (which provided, with one excepted class, that every employee of a statutory water company shall be a member of the standard water company scheme) of the Water Act 1973 with effect from 1st September 1988.