Section 20 Provisions as to pensions of Church Estates Commissioners

The Commissioners shall have power to grant to any First Church Estates Commissioner or Third Church Estates Commissioner who retires from service as such a Commissioner, having served a period of pensionable service, superannuation benefits of such a kind and of such amounts as the Commissioners may determine, being benefits which are no more favourable to the beneficiary than the benefits which would have been payable if the Commissioner had been a member of the Church Administrators Pension Fund who had served an equivalent period of pensionable service.

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Where a First Church Estates Commissioner or a Third Church Estates Commissioner dies before or after retirement from service as such a Commissioner, having served a period of pensionable service, and leaves a widow or widower F4(whether or not of the same or the opposite sex to the deceased), F5or surviving civil partner, the Commissioners shall have power to grant to the surviving spouseF6 or civil partner, subject to such conditions as they may determine, superannuation benefits of such a kind and of such amounts as the Commissioners may determine, being benefits which are no more favourable to the beneficiary than the benefits which would have been payable if the Commissioner had been a member of the Church Administrators Pension Fund who had served an equivalent period of pensionable service.

In this section the expression “ pensionable serviceF7, in relation to a Church Estates Commissioner, ” means service as First Church Estates Commissioner or as Third Church Estates Commissioner, and where any person has performed a period of service as First Church Estates Commissioner and a period of service as Third Church Estates Commissioner the two periods shall be aggregated for the purpose of determining the length of his pensionable service for the purposes of this section.

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In determining the amount of any superannuation benefits to be granted to a person under this section the Commissioners shall have regard to any superannuation benefits to which that person may be entitled in respect of any other service performed by the First or Third Church Estates Commissioner before the Commissioner's pensionable service began.