71.— Section 5 of the Act of 2010 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1)(b), by inserting “subject to a direction given by the Minister under section 4(1) for the purposes of the aggregation of public service pensions,” before “no paying authority is entitled to pay”, and

(b) in subsection (2), by substituting “Subject to a direction given by the Minister under section 4(1) for the purposes of the aggregation of public service pensions, if a paying authority pays to a pensioner” for “If a paying authority pays to a pensioner”.