Regulation 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Inherited SERPS) Regulations

(1)

The Social Security (Inherited SERPS) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001^f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

In regulation 2 (modification of Part II of the Contributions and Benefits Act) after paragraph (3) there shall be added the following paragraph –

“(4)

Where, on or after 6th April 2006, a person becomes a person of a description specified in Column 1 of the Schedule and entitled to a widowed person’s lump sum under paragraph 7A of Schedule 5 to the Contributions and Benefits Act^f2, paragraph 7B(3) of Schedule 5 to that Act shall have effect so that the half of the additional pension specified in paragraph (b) of the definition of “P” is increased by the percentage specified in Column 2 of the Schedule.”.

(3)

In the heading to the Schedule –

(a)

for “Regulation 2(2)” there shall be substituted “Regulation 2(2) and (4)”; and

(b)

after “persons of a specified description” there shall be added “and in the proportion of additional pension used in the calculation of a widowed person’s lump sum payable to such persons”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 2001 No. 441
f2: 1992 c. 7; paragraphs 7A and 7B are inserted by paragraph 10(1) of Schedule 9 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005