Pension Schemes Act 1993

Procedure

10 (1) The Secretary of State may make regulations generally as to the procedure to be followed by the Board in the exercise of their functions and the manner in which their functions are to be exercised.

(2) Such regulations may in particular make provision—

(a) as to the procedure to be adopted in connection with the issue, cancellation, variation or surrender of contracting-out certificates and appropriate scheme certificates, and with applications, determinations and the making of orders;

(b) as to the hearing of parties, the taking of evidence and the circumstances (if any) in which a document of any prescribed description is to be treated, for the purposes of any proceedings before the Board, as evidence, or conclusive evidence, of any prescribed matter;

(c) as to the time to be allowed for making any application or renewed application to the Board (whether for an order or determination of the Board or for the review of a determination, or otherwise);

(d) as to the manner in which parties to any proceedings before the Board may or are to be represented for the purposes of the proceedings.

(3) References in sub-paragraph (2) to contracting-out certificates and appropriate scheme certificates include references to contracting-out certificates and appropriate scheme certificates within the meaning of any provisions in force in Northern Ireland which correspond to provisions of this Act.

(4) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1) may provide for enabling the Board to summon persons—

(a) to attend before them and give evidence (including evidence on oath) for any purposes of proceedings in connection with an occupational pension scheme,

(b) to produce any documents required by the Board for those purposes, or

(c) to furnish any information which the Board may require relating to any such scheme which is the subject matter of proceedings pending before them.

11 Subject to regulations made by the Secretary of State under paragraph 10(1) and section 172(4), the procedure of the Board in relation to the discharge of any of their functions shall be such as the Board may determine.