2 Amendment of section 149(6) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993
In subsection (6) of section 149 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (procedure on an investigation by the Pensions Ombudsman: persons to whom information may be disclosed), after paragraph (n), there shall be added—

“(o) a body corporate established in accordance with paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 17 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the scheme operator of the ombudsman scheme);
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(p) an ombudsman as defined in paragraph 1 of that Schedule (interpretation).”

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Subsection (6) was inserted by section 159(1) of the Pensions Act 1995, and was amended by section 23(1) of, and paragraph 69(2) of Schedule 5 to, the Bank of England Act 1998 (c. 11); article 123(a), (b) and (c) of S.I.2001/3649; and paragraph 25 of Schedule 12, and Schedule 13, to the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35).