Regulation 2 Savings in respect of amendments to the Social Security Pensions Act 1975

(1)

If an earner ceased to be in contracted-out employment by reference to an occupational pension scheme other than a money purchase contracted-out scheme before paragraphs 6 and 7 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security Act 1989^f1 came into force, sections 41A and 41B of the Pensions Act (which deal with the protection of pensions)^f2 apply in relation to the earner and the earner’s widow or widower as if those paragraphs had not been enacted.

(2)

If an earner was in contracted-out employment by reference to an occupational pension scheme other than a money purchase contracted-out scheme immediately before paragraphs 6 and 7 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security Act 1989 came into force and:–

(a)

the earner ceases to be in contracted-out employment by reference to that scheme after these Regulations come into force but before 1st December 1990, and

(b)

the earner ceases to be in that contracted-out employment otherwise than by virtue of his attaining pensionable age,

sections 41A and 41B of the Pensions Act apply in relation to the earner and the earner’s widow or widower as if those paragraphs had not been enacted.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Paragraphs 6 and 7 of Schedule 6 came into force on 21st July 1989.
f2: Sections 41A and 41B were inserted by Schedule 6 to the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48). Section 41A has since been amended by section 6 of, and paragraphs 22 and 23 of Schedule 5 and Schedule 6 to, the Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53), and paragraph 6(1)(d) of Schedule 2 and paragraph 20 of Schedule 10 to the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50). Section 41B has been amended by section 6 of, and paragraph 24 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Act 1985 and modified by section 9(4)(f) of the Social Security Act 1986.