# The Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 2005, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
1. Section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 (the “Act”) permits the Minister for the Civil Service to make schemes which make provision for pensions and other benefits in respect of civil servants and persons serving in an employment or office listed in Schedule 1 to the Act. The Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme, the Civil Service Additional Voluntary Contribution Scheme, the Civil Service Compensation Scheme and the Civil Service Injury Benefits Scheme are schemes which have been made under section 1 of the Act.
2. This Order adds employment by Architecture and Design Scotland, the China-Britain Business Council, the NHS Confederation (Employers) Company Limited, the Health Protection Agency (Yr Asiantaeth Diogelu Iechyd), the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Partnerships for Schools Limited, Culture Northwest Limited, Culture North East Limited, Culture South West Limited, Yorkshire Culture Limited, Culture East Midlands Limited, Living East Limited, West Midlands Life Limited, Culture South East Limited, the Wine Standards Board, the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland, the Risk Management Authority, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and the Health and Social Care Information Centre and the JNCC Support Co. to those listed in Schedule 1 to the Act.
3. This Order also adds the office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland to those listed in Schedule 1 to the Act.
4. The addition of these employments and office to Schedule 1 to the Act makes the persons serving in the employments or office eligible to be members of the schemes made under section 1 of the Act, subject to the rules of those schemes.
5. Under the power conferred by section 1(8)(a) of the Act, section 1 of the Act applies to these employments and offices with effect from the dates specified in the Order.
6. Under the power conferred by section 1(5)(c) of the Act, employment by the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority and the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland is removed from those listed in Schedule 1 to the Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3171/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-admission-to-schedule-1-to-the-superannuation-act-1972-order-2005/note
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