{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-amendment-order-1996/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-amendment-order-1996/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1493",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary (United Kingdom Representatives) Pensions (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Adjustment in reckonable service",
  "text": "For article 6 of the principal Order there shall be substituted the following—\n“6 (1) Subject to paragraph (2), to articles 22, 25(7) and 27, and to Schedule 7, any period during which a person was or is a participant is a period of reckonable service.\n(2) In the case of a participant in service on 1st April 1995, the following adjustments shall where relevant be made to his aggregate period of reckonable service—\n(a) where his aggregate period of reckonable service includes service—\n(i) an application to purchase which, under the provisions of Schedule 7 (Purchase of added years), was accepted by the Managers before 31st August 1985; or\n(ii) attributable to a direction under article 24(2)(b) (Transfers from other pension schemes) made before that date,\nthe period of such service shall be multiplied by five-sixths;\n(b) where he applied to purchase added years pursuant to paragraph 14 of Schedule 3 to the European Parliament (United Kingdom Representatives) Pensions Order 1980, the number purchased shall be multiplied by two-fifths.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1450, which was revoked with savings by S.I. 1994/1662. Paragraph 14 of Schedule 3 was inserted by S.I. 1985/1116, article 27."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1493/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:14.475677+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}