1.—(1) A Secretary of the amalgamated fund shall be appointed by the Management Committee with the assent of the Board and shall continue in office as the Management Committee and the Board so determine.
(2) The Secretary shall be responsible to the Management Committee or Sectional Committees as appropriate for the general administration of the amalgamated fund and for the keeping of records and accounts.
(3) The Board shall also appoint such other persons as may be necessary to assist the Secretary in the performance of his duties and the salaries of the Secretary and such other persons shall be determined and paid by the Board.
2.—(1) The Auditors of the amalgamated fund shall be such persons as are from time to time appointed as auditors of the accounts of the Board by the Minister and, in addition, a Contributors' Auditor who shall be a member of the amalgamated fund and shall be nominated and elected at the first Annual Meeting to be held after the amalgamation date and thereafter triennially at the Annual Meeting.
(2) In the event of a casual vacancy occurring in the office of Contributors' Auditor by reason of the auditor dying, resigning, ceasing to be a member of the amalgamated fund or otherwise, the vacancy shall be filled by a member of the amalgamated fund appointed by the contributors' or members' committee-men on the Management Committee at a meeting specially convened for the purpose and the person so appointed shall hold office for the remainder of the period for which his predecessor would have held office.
(3) Any Contributors' Auditor appointed under this paragraph shall not be less than 21 years of age.
3. The Management Committee with the assent of the Board shall appoint an actuary or actuaries, being a Fellow or Fellows of the Institute of Actuaries or of the Faculty of Actuaries, to hold office so long as the Management Committee with the like assent shall determine, who shall make an investigation of the financial position of each section of the amalgamated fund separately as at the 31st December 1972 and thereafter at intervals of 5 years or such less interval as the Management Committee with the like assent shall determine, and shall report thereon to the Management Committee who shall furnish a copy of the report to the Board and to the Sectional Committees. For the purposes of this paragraph the part of the LNER section of the amalgamated fund which relates to persons admitted to the London and North Eastern Railway Superannuation Fund before the 1st June 1957 and the remaining part of that section shall be regarded as separate sections of the amalgamated fund.
4. The Medical Officer of the amalgamated fund shall be a medical officer or medical officers appointed by the Management Committee but if no such appointment is made any medical officer or medical officers appointed by the Board shall exercise the functions of the Medical Officer.