Paragraph 10

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

A scheme must provide for short service benefit to be computed on the same basis as long service benefit.

(2)

For this purpose, no account is to be taken of any rule making it (directly or indirectly) a condition of entitlement to benefit that pensionable service shall have been of any minimum duration.

(3)

This paragraph does not apply to so much of any benefit as—

(a)

accrues at a higher rate, or otherwise more favourably, in the case of members with a period of pensionable service of some specified minimum length, or of those remaining in pensionable service up to some specified minimum age; or

(b)

is of an amount, or at a rate, unrelated to length of pensionable service or to the number or amount of contributions paid by or for the member;

nor does it apply to any category of schemes or members, or description of benefit, excluded from this paragraph by regulations.

Notes on Schedule 16

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 16 repealed (N.I.) by S.I. 1975/1503 (N.I. 15), art. 74(2), Sch. 6

Sch. 16 repealed (7.2.1994) by 1993 c. 48, s. 188, Sch. 5 Pt.I (with s. 6(8)); S.I. 1994/86, art. 2

Subordinate legislation made

P1: Sch. 16: for exercises of power see Index to Government Orders

Notes on Part I

Modifications

C1: Schedule 16, Pt. I, modified (28.02.1991) by S.I. 1991/167, regs. 13(2), 21(1), 22(1), 23(2), 25(2), 27(1)