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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/schedule-6/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3253",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interrupted Service",
  "text": "(1) If a participating Member dies or ceases to be a Member of the House of Commons because of ill-health in circumstances to which regulation J1 applies and he—\n(a) has applied to purchase added years by periodical contributions; and\n(b) has been notified in writing by the Trustees that his application has been accepted;\nno further periodical contributions will be payable from the day following the date of his death or from the day following the date he ceases to be a Member of the House of Commons, as the case may be, and any added years that he has applied to purchase by periodical contributions shall be credited in full as reckonable service as a participating Member.\n(2) If a participating Member who has applied to purchase added years by periodical contributions and whose application has been accepted by the Trustees ceases to be a Member of the House of Commons in circumstances to which regulation J1 does not apply, no such periodical contributions will be payable by him from the day following the date when he ceases to be a Member of the House of Commons but his reckonable service as a participating Member will in respect of each application be increased by\nA×BC where—\nA is the number of added years he applied to purchase by periodical contributions;\nB is the period (expressed to the nearest day) during which periodical contributions have been paid;\nC is the total period during which periodical contributions would have been payable in accordance with paragraph 4(1) above.\n(3) If a Member to whom sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph has applied subsequently commences a further period of service as a participating Member before he has attained the age of 65 years, in circumstances in which the periods together constitute an aggregate period of reckonable service as a participating Member, then subject to subparagraphs (4) and (6) of this paragraph, he may give notice to the Trustees in writing within the period of three months beginning with the date upon which he commenced the further period of service that he intends to resume payment of his periodical contributions in respect of the added years for which he was making periodical contributions in his immediately preceding period of service and such periodical contributions shall then be payable from the date when he commenced the further period of service as a participating Member and shall continue until he attains the age of 65 years at the rate or rates applicable during that immediately preceding period.\n(4) Where a participating Member who ceased to pay periodical contributions by reason only of his ceasing to serve as a Member of the House of Commons for a period but subsequently became a Member of the House of Commons again and resumed the purchase of added years by periodical contributions in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph thereafter becomes entitled to a pension under regulation F1, his reckonable service as a participating Member shall be increased in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph except that C shall be read as the total period during which he would have paid periodical contributions for those added years if his service as a participating Member had been continuous.\n(5) If a participating Member to whom sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph has applied, subsequently commences a further period of service as a participating Member before he has attained the age of 65 years, in circumstances in which the periods together constitute an aggregate period of reckonable service as a participating Member, then subject to sub-paragraphs (4) and (6) of this paragraph, he may, if, in consequence of his break in service as a participating Member, there has been a reduction in the number of added years which he is able to purchase in full, with the agreement of the Trustees and, subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2(1)(ii) and 8(1) of this Schedule, apply to purchase by periodical contributions payable until he attains the age of 65 years some or all of the number of added years comprised in that reduction at the rate applicable to the participating Member’s birthday next following the receipt by the Trustees of his application.\n(6) Sub-paragraphs (3), (4) and (5) of this paragraph shall not apply where the application to purchase added years before the participating Member ceased to be a Member of the House of Commons was made under paragraph 2(2) above.\n(7) Subject to sub-paragraph (8) below, in respect of a participating Member who—\n(a) has applied to purchase added years by periodical contributions; and\n(b) has been notified in writing by the Trustees that his appointment has been accepted; and\n(c) who is appointed or elected Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury or Speaker of the House of Commons,\nsub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph shall apply from the day after the date of his appointment or election as such as if he were a person who ceases to be a participating Member in circumstances to which regulation J1 does not apply, but the other provisions of this paragraph and paragraph 6(3) shall not apply to him.\n(8) If a person to whom sub-paragraph (7) applies, during the period of three months after his appointment or election as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury or Speaker of the House of Commons, exercises the option in regulation C2—\n(a) any sum paid by the Trustees to the Consolidated Fund under regulation N3(1) shall include the value of any added years purchased by him by way of periodical contributions paid before 28th February 1991; and the number of added years so purchased shall in respect of each application to purchase added years be\nA×BC where A and C have the meanings set out in paragraph (2) above, and B is the period (expressed to the nearest day) during which periodical contributions were paid before 28th February 1991; and\n(b) any sum refunded to him under regulation N3(4)(a) shall include the periodical contributions paid by him before 28th February 1991; and\n(c) he shall resume the making of periodical contributions, (including any periodical contributions due between the date of his appointment or election and the date of his exercise of the option); and\n(d) if (a) and (b) apply, his reckonable service as a participating Member shall in respect of each application to purchase added years be increased by\nA×BC where A and C have the meanings set out in paragraph (2) above, and B is the period (expressed to the nearest day) during which periodical contributions are paid and not refunded, including any period during which contributions are credited in full under sub-paragraph (1) above.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (with transtl provns)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1920",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/920",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/920",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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