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Public Service Pensions Act 2013

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Section 38: Regulations, orders and directions

214.Subsection (1) provides that scheme regulations made by the Lord Chancellor, Minister for the Civil Service, the Secretary of State, the Treasury and the Welsh Ministers must be made by statutory instrument.

215.The section also sets out the meaning of “affirmative procedure”, “negative procedure”, “affirmative Commons procedure” and “negative Commons procedure” in the relevant legislatures.

216.Subsection (7) provides that Treasury directions made under the Act may be varied or revoked.

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