Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

after the definition of “participating employment” there is inserted the following definition–

“`pay period' means the period set out in the officer’s contract of employment in respect of which each payment of salary or wages is made or, in the case of a practitioner, a period of 3 months ending on the last day of March, June, September or December as the case may be;”;

after the definition of “pensionable age” there is inserted the following definition–

“`personal pension scheme' shall be construed in accordance with section 84 of the Social Security Act 1986^f1;”;

after the definition of “retiring allowance” there is inserted the following definition–

“`self-employed pension arrangement' means a personal pension scheme within the meaning of Chapter IV of Part XIV of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988^f2 which is approved by the Inland Revenue under that Chapter; but which is neither a personal pension scheme within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1986 nor a contract or a scheme approved under Chapter III of Part XIV of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;”;

in the definition of “service” for the words “18 years” there are substituted the words “16 years”; and at the end of sub-paragraph (c) there is inserted the word “or” and after that sub-paragraph there is added–

“(d)

any period of employment subject to an election made under regulation 6(2);”.