s 1275 Levy to pay expenses of bodies concerned with actuarial standards etc
(1) Section 17 of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 (c. 27) (levy to pay expenses of bodies concerned with accounting standards etc) is amended in accordance with subsections (2) to (5). (2) In subsection (3)(a) after “to which” insert “ , or persons within subsection (3A) to whom, ” . (3) After subsection (3) insert— (3A) The following persons are within this subsection— (a) the administrators of a public service pension scheme (within the meaning of section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993); (b) the trustees or managers of an occupational or personal pension scheme (within the meaning of that section). (4) After subsection (4)(b) insert— (c) make different provision for different cases. (5) After subsection (12) insert— (13) If a draft of any regulations to which subsection (10) applies would, apart from this subsection, be treated for the purposes of the standing orders of either House of Parliament as a hybrid instrument, it is to proceed in that House as if it were not such an instrument. (6) The above amendments have effect in relation to any exercise of the power to make regulations under section 17 of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 after this section comes into force, regardless of when the expenses to be met by the levy in respect of which the regulations are made were incurred. (7) In Schedule 3 to the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35) (disclosure of information held by the Pensions Regulator), in the entry relating to the Secretary of State, in the second column, for “or” at the end of paragraph (g) substitute— (ga) Section 17 of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 (levy to pay expenses of bodies concerned with accounting standards, actuarial standards etc), or