# Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022, Section 28: Scheme rules that prohibit unauthorised payments

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Subsection (2) applies where—
(a) a payment from a Chapter 1 scheme is permitted or required to be made under or by virtue of this Chapter,
(b) the payment, if made, would be an unauthorised payment, and
(c) a rule of the scheme prohibits the scheme from making unauthorised payments.
(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.
(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/7/section/28 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-and-judicial-offices-act-2022/section-28
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