SCHEDULE 3Minor, consequential and supplemental provisions

Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 194321

1

The Schedule (constitution, jurisdiction and procedure of Pensions Appeal Tribunals) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph 1—

a

omit sub-paragraph (1);

b

after sub-paragraph (3) insert—

3A

In this Schedule “Tribunal” means a Pensions Appeal Tribunal for Scotland or Northern Ireland constituted in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule.

c

omit sub-paragraph (4).

3

In paragraph 2—

a

omit sub-paragraph (1)(a);

b

in sub-paragraph (2A) omit “(3A),”;

c

omit sub-paragraph (3A); and

d

in sub-paragraph (4) for “sub-paragraphs (3A) and (3B)” substitute “sub-paragraph (3B)”.

4

In paragraph 2B—

a

in sub-paragraph (1) for “each part of the United Kingdom” substitute “Scotland or Northern Ireland”;

b

omit sub-paragraph (2)(a); and

c

in sub-paragraphs (5) and (6)—

i

for “any part of the United Kingdom” substitute “Scotland or Northern Ireland”; and

ii

for “that part of the United Kingdom” substitute “Scotland or Northern Ireland”.

5

In paragraph 3A—

a

for “any part of the United Kingdom” substitute “Scotland or Northern Ireland”; and

b

in paragraph (a) for “that part of the United Kingdom” substitute “Scotland or Northern Ireland”.

6

In paragraph 3B—

a

for “any part of the United Kingdom” substitute “Scotland or Northern Ireland”; and

b

for “such Tribunals in that part of the United Kingdom” substitute “a Pensions Appeal Tribunal for Scotland or Northern Ireland”.

7

In paragraph 3C(2)—

a

for “any part of the United Kingdom” substitute “Scotland or Northern Ireland”; and

b

omit paragraph (a).

8

In paragraph 5—

a

in sub-paragraph (1)(a) for “Pensions Appeals Tribunals” substitute “Tribunals”; and

b

omit sub-paragraph (1A)(a).

9

In paragraph 6—

a

for “the Tribunal” substitute “the appropriate tribunal”;

b

for “such one of the Tribunals appointed for England as may be prescribed by or under rules made for those Tribunals under this Schedule” substitute “the First-tier Tribunal”;

c

for “a Tribunal” substitute “the appropriate tribunal”; and

d

for “another Tribunal” substitute “another such tribunal”.

10

In paragraph 6B—

a

for “the Tribunal” substitute “the appropriate tribunal”; and

b

for “a Tribunal appointed for another part of the United Kingdom” substitute “another appropriate tribunal”.

11

In paragraph 7 for “such appeal” substitute “appeal to a Tribunal”.

12

In paragraph 7B, omit sub-paragraph (1).