2. In subsection (6) of section 149 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993(1) (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(2) (the scheme operator of the ombudsman scheme);
(p)an ombudsman as defined in paragraph 1 of that Schedule (interpretation).”.
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).