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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Minor and Consequential Amendments

THE SOCIAL SECURITY PENSIONS ACT 1975 (c.60)

13In sections 6(3) and 35(4) of the Pensions Act the words from " and rounding " to the end are hereby repealed.

14In section 6(4) of the Pensions Act (increase of earnings factors) for the words " any order or orders that have come into force under section 21 below " there are substituted the words " the last order under section 21 below to come into force ".

15In section 11 of the Pensions Act (application of earnings rule) after the words " the additional component" there are inserted the words " , of any increase so far as attributable to any additional component or to any increase in a guaranteed minimum pension ".

16In section 23(1)(c) of the Pensions Act (up-rating of certain increases under Schedule 1) after the words " such pensions " there are inserted the words " or to increases in guaranteed minimum pensions ".

17In section 34(6) of the Pensions Act (increase of earnings) for the words " any order or orders corning into force under section 21 above" there are substituted the words " the last order under section 21 above to come into force ".

18In section 35 of the Pensions Act (earner's guaranteed minimum)—

(a)in subsection (5) (increase of earnings factors) for the words " any order or orders that have come into force under section 21 above " there are substituted the words " the last order under section 21 above to come into force ";

(b)in subsection (7) (early retirement) for the words " any order or orders that come into force under the said section 21 " there are substituted the words " the last order under the said section 21 to come Into force ".

19In section 37(3) of the Pensions Act (earner's salary as factor of widow's pension) for the words " any order or orders coming into force under section 21 above " there are substituted the words " the last order under section 21 above to come into force ".

20In section 59(7) of the Pensions Act, after the words "this section " (in the two places where they occur after the definition of " lump sum ") there are inserted in each case the words " and section 59A of this Act ".

21In section 61(2) of the Pensions Act (reference of proposed regulations to the Occupational Pensions Board) for the words from "to be made" to "passing of this Act" there are substituted the words " made for the purpose only of consolidating other regulations revoked thereby ".

22In sections 66(2) and 68(3)(a) of the Pensions Act, for the words " section 59 " there are, in each case, substituted the words " sections 59 and 59A ".

23In paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Pensions Act (deferred retirement) at the end of both sub-paragraph (1) and sub-paragraph (2) there are inserted the words " under this Schedule apart from paragraph 4A. ".