Regulation H1 Early retirement for Members

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

regs H1, H2 am (retrosp) (to 3.11.2004) by Parliamentary Pension 2005 regs 1(4), 5, 6(2)–(4)
reg. H1(2)(3) substituted for reg. H1(2) by Parliamentary Pensions 2004 reg. 7
reg. H1(4) words substituted by Parliamentary Pensions 2006 reg. 11
reg H1 am (retrosp) (to 1.4.2001) by Parliamentary Pensions 2002 reg 5

(1)

Where a person who—

(a)

has ceased to be a Member of the House of Commons; and

(b)

is not the holder of a qualifying office; and

(c)

has attained the age of fifty years; and

(d)

has an actual period of reckonable service as a participating Member which

(i)

includes service on or after 2nd April 1991; and

(ii)

amounts to not less than fifteen years (hereinafter referred to in respect of a person as his “qualifying period”),

applies 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 65 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 in accordance with Schedule 4.

(2)

For the purposes of this regulation service of a person as a Member of the Parliament of the European Communities, whether rendered before or after 2nd April 1991, may count towards his qualifying period to the extent that it is not concurrent with service as a Member of the House of Commons.