62Other provisions about regulations and orders
(1)Section 167 of the principal Act shall have effect as if subsection (1) (regulations and orders subject to affirmative procedure) included regulations made wholly or partly by virtue of—
(a)paragraph 5(6) or (7) of Schedule 3 to that Act (contribution conditions for Category A and B retirement pensions, widowed mother's allowance and widow's pension); or
(b)section 3 or 9(3) above.
(2)Subsection (3) of the said section 167 (regulations and orders subject to annulment) shall not apply to any order which under any provision of this Act is required to be approved in draft or to be laid before Parliament after being made.
(3)Section 166(1) of the principal Act (power to make orders to be exercisable by statutory instrument) shall not apply to any power of the Occupational Pensions Board to make orders under this Act.
(4)Where any provision of Part III or IV of this Act allows for specified matters to be dealt with by, or determined in accordance with, regulations made by the Secretary of State, any regulations made by virtue of that provision may provide for those matters to be dealt with by the Occupational Pensions Board in their discretion or to be determined in accordance with the exercise by the Board of a discretion vested in them by the regulations, and for the Board's discretion to be exercised either generally in regard to those matters or differently in regard to particular cases or classes of case.