Part 1: Master Trusts Chapter 7: Supplementary Section 38 and Schedule 3: Minor and consequential amendments
Section 38 allows the Secretary of State, through regulations, to make amendments to legislation which are consequential on part 1 of the Act. This applies to both primary and secondary legislation and covers both existing legislation and legislation made during this parliamentary session.
	Subsections (4) and (5) provide that any regulations made under this section that contain provision amending primary legislation are subject to the affirmative resolution procedure and that any other regulations made under this section are subject to the negative resolution procedure.
	This section also introduces Schedule 3 which sets out other minor consequential amendments.
	Paragraphs 1 to 4 of Schedule 3 make changes to sections 100B(2) and 101AI(8) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 and section 67A(9) of the Pensions Act 1995 to amend the definition of ‘scheme rules’ so that references to scheme rules in these provisions incorporate the legislative overrides included in sections 21, 23, 26, 28, 29 and 33.
	Paragraphs 5 to 13 make changes to the Pensions Act 2004 (PA2004) to extend existing powers and functions of the Pensions Regulator to measures in this Act.
	Section 13 PA2004 is amended to include reference to this Act by paragraph 6 to ensure that the Pensions Regulator can issue improvement notices to trustees where there are breaches of the Act’s provisions (or regulations made under them).
	Paragraph 7 amends section 70 PA2004 to include the scheme funder and scheme strategist within those who have a duty to report breaches of the law to the Pensions Regulator.
	Paragraph 8 amends section 72 PA2004 so that a person required to give information under section 72 for the purposes of the Pensions Regulator’s authorisation functions can be required to explain any information or document, including by attendance in person.
	Paragraph 9 amends section 90 PA2004 to require the Pensions Regulator to publish Codes of Practice on authorisation criteria and the application for authorisation and adds a reference to the Act in the definition of "pensions legislation" for the purposes of that section.
	Paragraph 10 amends section 93 PA2004 to make the power to give a direction under section 26(7) of this Act (direction to submit implementation strategy) subject to the Pensions Regulator’s internal ‘standard procedure’.
	Paragraph 11 extends the list of instances included in section 97(5) of PA2004 showing where special procedure can be used so that the special procedure can apply in relation to the power to make a pause order, the power to extend a pause order, the power to validate action in contravention of a pause order and the power to require notification of members or employers under paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 1 of this Act.
	The definition of ‘scheme rules’ in section 318(3) of PA2004 is expanded so that references to scheme rules in these provisions incorporate the legislative overrides included in sections 21, 23, 26, 28, 29 and 33.
	Paragraph 13 extends the list of functions exercisable by the Pensions Regulator’s Determinations Panel in schedule 2 PA2004 by creating a new list headed Part 4A. These functions are the power to withdraw authorisation, the power to direct trustees to pursue a continuity option, power to make a pause order, to extend the pause order, to validate action taken in contravention of the pause order and to direct notification of members or employers.
	Paragraph 14 amends section 31 of the Pensions Act 2008 which currently sets out the effect of freezing orders to include references to pause orders issued under section 31 of this Act.