Part 1: Public Service Pension Schemes Chapter 1: Schemes other than Judicial Schemes and Local Government Schemes Section 37: Scheme regulations
The definition of "scheme regulations" is contained in this section. This section clarifies that the definition for scheme regulations is the same as it is in the PSPA 2013 and PSPA(NI) 2014, where scheme regulations made under s.1(4) of those Acts established the Chapter 1 new schemes and made related provision.
	Section 37(2) confirms that, where Chapter 1 of the Act grants a power to make provision by means of "scheme regulations for a Chapter 1 legacy scheme", that means that the power is to be exercised by the responsible authority for the Chapter 1 new scheme that is connected with the Chapter 1 legacy scheme. The responsible authority may exercise that power by amending the Chapter 1 legacy scheme in the scheme regulations. Accordingly, the policy intention is that the responsible authorities for the Chapter 1 new schemes may use scheme regulations (as defined in s.1(4) PSPA 2013 and s.1(4) PSPA(NI) 2014) to exercise the powers contained in the Act, and may use those scheme regulations to make the necessary amendments to both the new schemes and the legacy schemes within the same statutory instrument (i.e. the scheme regulations).
	Section 37(3) contains the definition of "responsible authority", which has the same meaning as in the PSPA 2013 and PSPA(NI) 2014.