Regulation 2 Amendment of the State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Regulations 1987

The State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Regulations 1987 ^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

After paragraph (3) of regulation 6 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(4)

In a case where the person in question is a man who is entitled to receive a guaranteed minimum pension in respect of his late wife’s service in contracted-out employment and to which regulation 33D of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1984 ^f2 applies, the Secretary of State shall apply the actuarial tables in Schedule 5.”.

In regulation 7 the word “and” at the end of paragraph (b) shall be omitted and at the end of paragraph (c) for the full-stop there shall be substituted “; and”.

After paragraph (c) of regulation 7 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(d)

in a case where the person in respect of whom the premium falls to be paid is a man who is entitled to receive a pension giving effect to his late wife’s protected rights (not being a case to which either regulation 18(2A) of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1984 or regulation 3 of the Personal Pension Schemes (Personal Pension Protected Rights Premiums) Regulations 1987 ^f3 applies), the actuarial tables in Schedule 5.”.

In Schedule 5 for the second table there shall be substituted the table set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.