{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/887",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pension (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Early retirement for Members",
  "text": "Regulation H1 of the Principal Regulations shall be amended as follows—\n(1) In paragraph (1) after the words “Where a person” there shall be inserted the words “who was a participant at any time before 4th November 2004 and”.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(c) there shall be substituted for the words “age of fifty years” the words “minimum pension age”.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (1)(d) after the words “as a participating Member which” there shall be inserted the words “, excluding service on or after the cut-off date”.\n(4) In paragraph (1) after the words “abated in accordance with Schedule 4” there shall be inserted—\n“except that the part of the pension accrued in respect of service on and after the cut-off date shall be abated as if the participant had a qualifying period of 15 years”.\n(5) In paragraph (2) after the word “service” there shall be inserted the words “before the cut-off date”.\n(6) After paragraph (3) there shall be inserted—\n“(4) Where a person is a participant at anytime on or after 4th November 2004 and who—\n(a) has ceased to be a Member of the House of Commons;\n(b) is not the holder of a qualifying office;\n(c) has attained the minimum pension age; and\n(d) in the case of a person who was a participant at any time before 4th November 2004, does not meet condition (d) of paragraph (1) above,\napplies in writing to the Trustees for an immediate pension under this regulation then, if the Trustees are satisfied that he does not intend to stand for re-election to that House, he shall be entitled to receive a pension under regulation F1 as if he had attained the age of sixty-five years on the date of his application or, if later, such other date as may be there specified; but the annual amount of the pension to which he is so entitled, both before and after he attains the age of sixty-five years, shall (subject to Part G (Commutation)) be an amount calculated in accordance with regulation F2 and abated by the relevant percentage under Schedule 4 that would have applied if the participant had a qualifying period of 15 years.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/887/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:01:41.932913+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."
}