(1)In the definitions of " public service pension scheme " in section 51(3) of the [1973 c. 38.] Social Security Act 1973 and section 66(1) of the Pensions Act (which provide among other things that the definition includes any scheme prescribed by such regulations as are there mentioned) after the word " includes " there shall be inserted the words " any occupational pension scheme established, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service, by or with the approval of another Minister of the Crown and ".
(2)Subsection (3) of section 97 of the Social Security Act 1973 (which provides for orders made by the Secretary of State under that Act to be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament) shall have effect in relation to orders under section 65 of that Act (under which a public service pension scheme may be modified or wound up by an order made by an authority designated by the Minister for the Civil Service) as if the reference in that subsection to the Secretary of State were a reference to an appropriate authority within the meaning of the said section 65.
(3)In section 6(2) of the [1975 c. 16.] Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975 (which provides that a scheme under section 5 of that Act shall not provide for benefit for or in respect of a person disabled or dying from byssinosis unless he was employed for five years in an occupation prescribed in relation to that disease and shall not provide for benefit for a person so disabled unless the disablement is likely to be permanent) the words from " shall " where it first occurs to " disease, and " shall be omitted and for the words " so disabled " there shall be substituted the words " disabled as a result of the disease of byssinosis ".
(4)Regulations under subsection (1) of section 81 of the principal Act or subsection (5) of section 6 of the [1975 c. 61.] Child Benefit Act 1975 (which among other things enable regulations to be made about the manner of paying benefit) may provide that, in relation to payments of benefit under the principal Act, or as the case may be of child benefit, which in pursuance of regulations under the said subsection (1) or (5) have been credited to a bank account or other account under arrangements made with the agreement of the beneficiary, section 119 of the principal Act (which among other things provides for the repayment of overpayments of benefit under that Act and is applied to child benefit by section 8(1) of the other Act) shall have effect with such modifications as are prescribed by the regulations; but any modifications so prescribed shall not apply in relation to any payment of benefit unless notice of the effect of the modifications was given to the beneficiary in accordance with the regulations before he agreed to the arrangements.
In this subsection " modifications" includes additions, omissions and amendments.
(5)In section 2(3) of the Child Benefit Act 1975 (which among other things enables regulations to provide that a person who ceases in any week to be a child for the purposes of Part I of that Act shall be treated as continuing to be such a child for a prescribed period ending not more than 13 weeks after the end of that week) the words from " ending " to " that week " shall be omitted.
(6)It is hereby declared that in paragraph (a) of section 18(1) of the [1977 c. 5.] Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 (which among other things enables regulations to provide that certain sums shall be deemed for the purposes of the principal Act to be such earnings as are mentioned in that paragraph) the reference to the purposes of the principal Act includes the purposes of the Pensions Act.