# The Pensions Increase (Past Prime Ministers) Regulations 1991 S.I. 1991/787 · made 21 March 1991 Made under: Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (Section 5) ## Introductory text PENSIONS Made 21st March 1991 Laid before Parliament 22nd March 1991 Coming into force 8th April 1991 The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(3) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 and now vested in them, and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations: ## 1 Citation and commencement These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Increase (Past Prime Ministers) Regulations 1991, and shall come into force on 8th April 1991. ## 2 Interpretation In these Regulations— “the 1971 Act” means the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971. “the 1991 Act” means the Ministerial and other Pensions and salaries Act 1991 ## 3 Interpretation The provisions of the 1971 Act shall apply in relation to— (a) a pension payable under section 3 of the Ministerial Salaries Consolidation Act 1965(pensions of Prime Ministers) as increased by section 1(5) of the 1991 Act, and (b) a pension payable under section 26 or 27 of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972 to or in respect of a person who has held office as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, as increased by section 1(5) of the 1991 Act subject to the modifications and exceptions specified in the following provisions of these regulations. ## 4 Interpretation For the purposes of the 1971 Acta pension paid to a person who ceased to hold office as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury before 28th February 1991 shall be deemed to have begun on that date and the “basic rate”of that pension means the pension as increased by the 1991 Act. ## 5 Interpretation The annual rate of the pension to which these regulations apply shall be increased in respect of any period on or after 8th April 1991. ## 6 Interpretation The Pensions Increase (Past Prime Ministers) Regulations 1972 and the Pensions Increase (Past Prime Ministers) (Amendment) Regulations 1979 are hereby revoked. ## Signature Gregory Knight Nicholas Baker Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 21st March 1991 ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Regulations) 1 These Regulations, which revoke and replace the Prime Ministers (Past Prime Ministers) Regulations 1972 and the Prime Ministers (Past Prime Ministers)(Amendment) Regulations 1979, apply the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 to the pensions of Prime Ministers subject to certain modifications. 2 The pensions of former Prime Ministers who ceased to hold office before 28th February 1991 were from that date increased by the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 to the level of the pension which would be payable to the current Prime Minister, if he ceased to hold office on that date. That pension was itself increased by the 1991 Act to one half of the salary of the Prime Minister at the date he ceased to hold office. The pensions of Prime Ministers who ceased to hold office before 28th February 1991, are, by virtue of regulation 4, deemed to have begun on that date instead of on the dates which applied under the previous regulations, and pensions increase will be payable on the whole of the amount as increased by the 1991 Act, as if they were pensions which began on that date. The former provisions, which ensured that the pensions of former Prime Ministers together with pensions increase would at no time exceed the pension which would be payable to the current Prime Minister, if he ceased to hold office, have been removed. 3 The effect of the application of the provisions of the 1971 Act to the pensions of Prime Ministers and of the revocation of the earlier modifications is that the pensions of Prime Ministers who cease to hold office after 28th February 1991 will be deemed to begin on the day following the last day of service in respect of which the pension is payable, in accordance with section 8(2) of the 1971 Act, and that Act will apply to those pensions without any modification. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/787 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-past-prime-ministers-regulations-1991 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.