Explanatory note

These Regulations make amendments to the Parliamentary Pension Scheme to correct drafting errors made in the Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2002.

Regulation 2 provides for an office holder who opts after his appointment not to pay contributions at the increased rate of 9 per cent of salary to receive a refund of excess contributions paid since the date of his appointment.

Regulation 3 clarifies one of the conditions subject to which the adopted child of a former husband or wife of a deceased participant is eligible for a pension by providing that at the time of the death the child should have been wholly or mainly dependant on the deceased.

Section 2(4) of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987 confers express power to make regulations retrospective in effect. Regulation 3 takes effect from 1st April 2001.