Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2006.

(2)

Regulation 6 (commutation for Members and office holders reaching 75 before 6th April 2006) comes into force on 5th April 2006.

(3)

Regulation 17 (payments in respect of members with mental incapacity) and the entry in Schedule 2 relating to regulation R1 of the Contributory Fund Regulations come into force on the day on which paragraph 29 of Schedule 6 to the Mental Capacity Act 2005^f1 (which repeals section 142 of the Mental Health Act 1983^f2 for England and Wales subject to savings) comes into force.

(4)

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), these Regulations come into force on 6th April 2006.

(5)

But regulation 6 has effect from 4th March 2006 and regulation 13 (pension entitlement of salaried Chairmen of Select Committees or Standing Committees) has effect from 13th July 2005.

(6)

In these Regulations—

“the AVC Regulations” means the Parliamentary Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1993^f3; and
“the Contributory Fund Regulations” means the Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993^f4.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2005 c. 9.
f2: 1983 c. 20.
f3: S.I. 1993/3252, amended by S.I. 1994/1696, S.I. 1999/780, S.I. 2001/2649, S.I. 2001/3649 and S.I. 2004/2417.
f4: S.I. 1993/3253, amended by S.I. 1995/2867, S.I. 1996/2406, S.I. 1999/2100, S.I. 2001/835, S.I. 2001/2649, S.I. 2002/1807, S.I. 2002/1887, S.I. 2004/2416 and S.I. 2005/887.