Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1976

Regulations and schemes generally.

8.—(1) Every regulation or scheme made by the Minister under this Act, other than a regulation under section 3 (3), shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation or scheme is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the regulation or scheme is laid before it, the regulation or scheme, as the case may be, shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

(2) Any regulations or scheme made by the Minister under this Act may provide for the determination by the Minister of questions arising under, or by virtue of the making of, the regulations or scheme and may provide that the decision of the Minister on any such questions shall be final.

(3) Any scheme made by the Minister under this Act may provide that any reference in any statute (other than this Act), or in any particular such statute specified in the scheme, to the Superannuation Acts for the time being in force shall be construed as, or as including, as the case may be, a reference to the scheme, and in case any such provision is included in such a scheme, the enactment to which the provision relates shall be construed and shall have effect in accordance with the provision.