{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-and-judicial-offices-act-2022/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-and-judicial-offices-act-2022/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/7",
  "legislation_title": "Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-and-judicial-offices-act-2022",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Scheme rules that prohibit unauthorised payments",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) a payment from a Chapter 1 scheme is permitted or required to be made under or by virtue of this Chapter,\n(b) the payment, if made, would be an unauthorised payment, and\n(c) a rule of the scheme prohibits the scheme from making unauthorised payments.\n(2) The payment may be made only if it falls within a description of payments specified for the purposes of this section in Treasury directions.\n(3) In this section “unauthorised payment” means a payment that is an unauthorised payment for the purposes of Part 4 of FA 2004 (see section 160(5) of that Act).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 2-30 applied (N.I.) (1.10.2023) by The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/133), regs. 1, 55(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 1 applied (1.10.2023) by S.I. 2005/438, Sch. 3 para. 40(4) (as inserted by The Armed Forces Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/998), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 2-30 applied (E.W.) (1.10.2023) by The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/843), regs. 1(b), 56(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 1 applied (E.W.) (1.10.2023) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/985), regs. 1(2), 76(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 28 applied (E.W.) (1.10.2023) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/985), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 1 applied (N.I.) (1.10.2023) by The Health and Social Care Pension Schemes (Remediable Service) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/132), regs. 1, 74(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Ss. 2-30 applied (N.I.) (1.10.2023) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/141), regs. 1(b), 63(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Ss. 2-30 applied (E.W.) (1.10.2023) by The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/961), regs. 1(3), 57(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Ss. 2-30 applied (E.W.) (1.10.2023) by The Police Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/831), regs. 1(b), 56(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 1 applied (S.) (1.10.2023) by The Teachers’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/241), regs. 1(b), 63"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 1 applied (E.W.) (1.10.2023) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/871), regs. 1(b), 63(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "Ss. 2-30 applied (1.10.2023) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/942), regs. 1(b), 63(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C13",
      "text": "Ss. 2-30 applied (N.I.) (1.10.2023) by The Police Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/122), regs. 1(b), 55(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 28 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 131(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 28 in force at 1.10.2023 in force in so far as not already in force (or on such earlier day as may be appointed), see s. 131(2)(a)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/7/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:27.065737+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."
}