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SOCIAL SECURITY PENSIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1975 - SECT 61

61.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Article, the appropriate authority
shall in relation to a public service pension scheme, have power to make such
provision for the modification or winding-up of the scheme as could be made by
an order of the Occupational Pensions Board under this Part in the case of a
scheme other than a public service pension scheme; and in this Article "the
appropriate authority", in relation to a scheme, means such Minister of the
Crown or government department as may be designated by the Minister for the
Civil Service or the Department of Finance as having responsibility for the
particular scheme.

(2) The powers of the appropriate authority under this Article shall be
exercisable by means of an order

(a)directly modifying the scheme (without regard, in the case of a scheme
contained in, or made under powers conferred by, an enactment, to the terms of
the enactment or any of its restrictions);

(b)modifying an enactment under which the scheme was made or by virtue of
which it has effect; or

(c)directing that the scheme be wound up and including directions with respect
to the manner and timing of the winding-up;

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