2.  The Savings Certificates Regulations 1991(1) shall be amended—

(1) in regulation 2(1), by inserting the following definition—

“the adjudicator” means a person appointed under section 84 of the Friendly Societies Act 1992”(2),

and by omitting the definition of “Chief Registrar of friendly societies”;

(2) in regulation 24, by substituting for the words “Chief Registrar of friendly societies” and “Chief Registrar” in all places that they appear the word “adjudicator”;

(3) by adding to regulation 24 the following new paragraph—

“(5) Where a dispute of the sort referred to in paragraph (1) above was referred before 1 January 1993 to the Chief Registrar of friendly societies or a deputy appointed by him or (by virtue of the application of these Regulations to Scotland) to the assistant registrar of friendly societies for Scotland, that dispute shall be treated as if it had been referred to the adjudicator and any thing done in relation to such a dispute by the Chief Registrar, any deputy appointed by him or the assistant registrar shall be treated as a thing done by the adjudicator.”;

(4) by omitting regulation 33(g).

(1)

S.I. 1991/1031; to which there is an amendment not relevant to these Regulations.