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57.(1) On an application made to them in respect of an occupational pension scheme (other than a public service pension scheme) by persons competent to make such an application in respect of it, the Occupational Pensions Board shall issue a determination as to whether or not the rules of the scheme conform with the equal access requirements. (2) The persons competent to make an application under this Article in respect of a scheme are (a)the trustees or managers of the scheme; (b)any person other than the trustees or managers who has power to alter any of the rules of the scheme; (c)any person who is an employer of persons in service in an employment to which the scheme applies; (d)any member or prospective member of the scheme; (e)such other persons as regulations may specify, in relation to any category of schemes into which the scheme falls, as being proper persons to make an application for the purposes of this Article in respect of a scheme of that category. (3) The Board may at any time of their own motion issue in respect of a scheme which has come to their notice any determination which they could issue in the case of that scheme on an application to them under paragraph (1); and this paragraph applies in particular to a scheme which the Board are considering with a view to contracting-out and one in respect of which an application has been made to them under Article 60 for an order authorising the modification of the scheme or modifying it. (4) Any question arising in proceedings before any court or tribunal whether the rules of an occupational pension scheme conform with the equal access requirements shall be referred to the Occupational Pensions Board and determined by that Board. (5) At any time when the Occupational Pensions Board are concerned with a scheme for the purpose of issuing a determination under this Article, they may include a determination (whether or not applied for) as to any of the particular matters specified in paragraph (2) of Article 55 or in that paragraph as modified by regulations under paragraph (3) of that Article.
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