{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-speakers-pensions-amendment-regulations-1979/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-speakers-pensions-amendment-regulations-1979/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/762",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Increase (Speakers' Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-speakers-pensions-amendment-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 6 of principal regulations",
  "text": "The principal regulations shall be amended by the deletion of regulation 6 and the substitution therefor of the following new regulation:—\n“6 (1) This regulation applies to a pension payable under section 26 or 27 of the 1972 Act to or in respect of a person who has held office as Speaker of the House of Commons.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, for the purposes of the 1971 Act a pension to which this regulation applies shall not be deemed to have begun on the day referred to in section 8(2) of the 1971 Act but shall be deemed to have begun—\n(a) in the case of a person who ceased to hold office as Speaker of the House of Commons before 31st July 1978, on 2nd April 1972,\n(b) subject to subparagraph (c) below, in the case of a person who ceases to hold office as Speaker of the House of Commons on or after 31st July 1978, on that date, and\n(c) in the case of a person who ceases to hold office as Speaker of the House of Commons after the pension payable to or in respect of such a person is increased on any date after 31st July 1978 in accordance with the provisions of section 29 of the 1972 Act, on the date of the last such increase before that person ceases to hold such office, notwithstanding that that date may precede the date when the person actually ceases to hold such office.\n(3) Any increase under the 1971 Act (as modified by paragraph (2) above) of a pension to which this regulation applies shall not at any time exceed the amount by which the basic rate of the pension falls short of the rate of the pension to which the person in receipt of the pension would have been entitled under sections 26 or 27 (as the case may be) of the 1972 Act if the person in respect of whose service the pension is payable had, not earlier than that time, ceased to hold office as Speaker of the House of Commons.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/762/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:16:55.772274+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}