provide that heating, lighting and water provided free of charge and council tax paid are not subject to the one-sixth limitation of the aggregate of the amounts mentioned in the relevant paragraphs of regulation 15 and regulation 16 (regulation 3);

clarify the process governing the repayment of overpayments of pension paid from previous years (regulation 4);

remove the limitation on a person obtaining a lump sum and serious ill health commutation after the age of 75 (regulations 5, 6 and 7);

remove the limitation on a person obtaining a lump sum in respect of family benefit relating to a person who had died after reaching the age of 75 (regulation 8);

update references to Academies and Academy agreements in accordance with the Academies Act 2010 (regulations 9 and 10);

amend Schedule 3 to provide new percentage rates for employees’ ordinary contributions which are to be calculated monthly, by reference to the full-time equivalent annual rate of each employee’s contributable salary for that month (regulation 11);

make provision for rounding to the nearest £100 when determining the annual uplift to the amount of additional pension that can be purchased (regulation 12); and

substitute a reference to the Secretary of State for a reference to the General Teaching Council for England, which is being abolished on 1st April 2012 (regulation 13).