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Section 135 Pensions: interpretation.

England and Wales

(1)

This section has effect for the purposes of section 134.

(2)

Rights in relation to a person include—

(a)

all forms of right to or eligibility for the present or future payment of a pension to or in respect of him;

(b)

a right of allocation in respect of the present or future payment of a pension.

(3)

A deferred pensioner is a person who has rights under the occupational scheme but is neither a pensioner under it nor a person to whom rights are accruing under it by virtue of his employment.

(4)

“Salary related occupational pension scheme” has the meaning given by F1section 100D of the M1Pension Schemes Act 1993.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in s. 135(4) substituted (6.4.2015) by Pension Schemes Act 2015 (c. 8), s. 89(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 33 (with s. 87)

Marginal citations

M1

1993 c. 48.