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The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993

S.I. 1993/3253 · Made 24 December 1993

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PARLIAMENT

Made 24th December 1993

Laid before Parliament 31st December 1993

Coming into force 21st January 1994

The Leader of the House of Commons, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2(1), (3) and (4) of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987 f1, with the consent of the Treasury, and after consultation with the Trustees of the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund and with such persons as appeared to him to represent persons likely to be affected by the Regulations, hereby makes the following Regulations:

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Footnotes

f1

1987 c. 45; section 2(3) was amended by the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 (c. 5), section 2.

Contents

  1. Part A: Preliminary
  2. A1Title and commencement
  3. A2Interpretation
  4. Part B: Trustees and Administration
  5. B1Trustees and Administration
  6. Part C: Membership
  7. C1Membership for Members of the House of Commons
  8. C2Membership for Prime Ministers and Speakers
  9. C3Membership for Office Holders
  10. C4Right to opt out for Members of the House of Commons
  11. C5Right to opt out for office holders.
  12. C6Right to opt in for Members of the House of Commons
  13. C7Right to opt in for office holders
  14. Part D: Contributions
  15. D1Contributions by participating Members
  16. D2Contributions by participating office holders
  17. D3Earnings Cap
  18. Part E: Reckonable Service
  19. E1Actual Reckonable Service
  20. E2Aggregate Reckonable Service
  21. Part F: Pension Entitlement
  22. F1Entitlement of pensioner Members
  23. F2Amount payable to pensioner Members
  24. F3Entitlement of pensioner office holders
  25. F4Amount payable to pensioner office holders
  26. F5Permitted maximum pensions: pensioners who joined before 1st June 1989
  27. F6Permitted maximum pensions: pensioners who joined after 1st June 1989
  28. F7Guaranteed minimum pensions
  29. F8Duration of pensions
  30. Part G: Commutation
  31. G1Commutation into lump sum
  32. Part H: Early retirement and early abated pensions
  33. H1Early retirement for Members
  34. H2Early retirement for office holders who have been Members
  35. Part J: Ill-health Pensions
  36. J1Ill-health pensions based on service as a participating Member
  37. J2Ill-health pensions based on service as an office holder
  38. J3Ill-health pensions for former Members
  39. J4Ill-health pensions for former office holders
  40. J5Medical evidence
  41. Part K: Widows, Widowers and Children
  42. K1Equal Treatment
  43. K2Pensions for Widows and Widowers
  44. K3Pensions for Children
  45. K4Death in service of participating Member
  46. K5Enhancement of initial widows' and widowers' pensions
  47. K6Meaning of “basic or prospective pension or pensions”
  48. Part L: Death Gratuities
  49. L1Gratuity on death in service
  50. L2Gratuity on death after retirement
  51. Part M: FIVE YEAR GUARANTEE
  52. M1Entitlement
  53. M2Guarantees for widows and widowers
  54. M3Guarantees where children but no spouse survive
  55. M4Guarantees where no survivors
  56. M5Remarriage or cohabitation of surviving spouse
  57. M6Early termination of child’s period of full time education
  58. M7Deceased pensioner office holders
  59. Part N: Refunds
  60. N1Refund to contributor
  61. N2Refund after death
  62. N3Refund of Prime Ministers' and Speakers' contributions
  63. N4Refund of Lord Chancellors' contributions
  64. N5Deduction of tax from refunds of contributions
  65. N6Deemed contributions
  66. Part P: Transfers
  67. P1Transfers to other pension schemes
  68. P2Transfers to other pension schemes after opt out
  69. P3Transfer to overseas pension schemes
  70. P4Effect of transfers out on reckonable service
  71. P5Certification by Government Actuary
  72. P6Transfers from other pension schemes
  73. Part Q: Added Years
  74. Q1Purchase of added years by participating Members
  75. Part R: Miscellaneous and Supplemental
  76. R1Application of pensions
  77. R2Payments due to deceased persons
  78. R3Deferred Rights
  79. R4Protection against adverse alterations
  80. R5Revocations, savings and transitional provisions
  81. Signature
  82. Schedule 1: Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund
  83. 1General provisions as to Trustees
  84. 2General provisions as to Trustees
  85. 3General provisions as to Trustees
  86. 4General provisions as to Trustees
  87. 5General provisions as to Trustees
  88. 6Distribution of functions between Custodian Trustee and Managing Trustees
  89. 7Distribution of functions between Custodian Trustee and Managing Trustees
  90. 8Distribution of functions between Custodian Trustee and Managing Trustees
  91. 9Distribution of functions between Custodian Trustee and Managing Trustees
  92. 10Distribution of functions between Custodian Trustee and Managing Trustees
  93. 11Administrative provisions
  94. 12Administrative provisions
  95. 13Administrative provisions
  96. 14Administrative provisions
  97. 15Administrative provisions
  98. 16Administrative provisions
  99. 17Administrative provisions
  100. Schedule 2: Maximum Pensions
  101. 1Paragraph 1
  102. 2Paragraph 2
  103. 3Class A Participant
  104. 4Class B and Class C Participants
  105. Schedule 3
  106. ICommutation of Pensions
  107. 1Paragraph 1
  108. 2Maximum commutation for Members (including those retiring on grounds of ill-health)
  109. 3Maximum commutation for Members on early retirement
  110. 4Maximum commutation for office holders (including those retiring on grounds of ill-health)
  111. 5Maximum commutation for office holders on early retirement
  112. 6Earnings cap
  113. 7Class B and Class C Participants
  114. IIMaximum Commutation of Pensions
  115. Schedule 4Percentage Abatement of Pension Entitlement
  116. 1Paragraph 1
  117. 2Paragraph 2
  118. Schedule 5: Persons Qualifying for Children’s Pensions
  119. 1Paragraph 1
  120. 2Paragraph 2
  121. 3Paragraph 3
  122. 4Paragraph 4
  123. 5Paragraph 5
  124. 6Paragraph 6
  125. Schedule 6: Purchase of Added Years
  126. 1Paragraph 1
  127. 2Purchase of added years by periodical contributions
  128. 3Purchase of added years by periodical contributions
  129. 4Purchase of added years by periodical contributions
  130. 5Interrupted Service
  131. 6Purchase of added years by lump sum
  132. 7Lump sum payments
  133. 8Limits on purchase of added years
  134. 9Further applications to purchase added years
  135. 10General
  136. Schedule 7: Revocations
  137. IEnactments having effect as regulations under section 2 of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987
  138. IIOther Instruments
  139. Part III: Savings
  140. 1Paragraph 1
  141. 2Paragraph 2
  142. Part IV: Transitional Provisions
  143. 1Paragraph 1
  144. 2Paragraph 2
  145. Schedule 8: Reckonable Service
  146. 1Participants with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978.
  147. 2Participants with service between 2nd August 1978 and 19th July 1983
  148. Schedule 9: Pension Entitlement
  149. 1Members with service between 1st January 1972 and 19th July 1983
  150. 2Members whose service ended between 20th July 1983 and 31st July 1984
  151. 3Office holders whose service ended between 1st April 1972 and 1st August 1978
  152. 4Office holders whose service ended between 1st April 1972 and 1st August 1978
  153. 5Office holders whose service ended between 2nd August 1978 and 19th July 1983
  154. 6Office holders whose service ended between 20th July 1983 and 31st July 1984
  155. Schedule 10: Early retirement and early abated pensions
  156. 1Members with service between 1st January 1972 and 19th July 1983
  157. 2Members with service between 20th July 1983 and 31st July 1984
  158. 3Members with service between 1st August 1984 and 1st April 1991
  159. 4Office holders with service between 1st January 1972 and 19th July 1983
  160. 5Office holders with service between 20th July 1983 and 30th July 1984
  161. 6Office holders with service between 31st July 1984 and 1st April 1991
  162. Schedule 11: Ill-health pensions
  163. 1Members with preserved rights from before 1972
  164. Schedule 12: Widows, Widowers and Children
  165. 1Widows of men with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978
  166. 2Widows of men with service between 2nd August 1978 and 30th July 1984.
  167. 3Widowers of women with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978.
  168. 4Widowers of women with service between 2nd August 1978 and 30th July 1984.
  169. 5Children of persons with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978
  170. 6Children of persons with service between 2nd August 1978 and 30th July 1984
  171. 7Meaning of “basic or prospective pension or pensions”: persons with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978.
  172. 8Meaning of “basic or prospective pension or pensions”: persons with service between 2nd August 1978 and 30th July 1984
  173. Schedule 13: Gratuities on death after retirement
  174. 1Persons with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978
  175. 2Persons with service between 2nd August 1978 and 30th July 1984.
  176. 3Persons with service between 31st July 1984 and 5th April 1988.
  177. Schedule 14: Refunds
  178. 1Contributions paid under section 5 of the 1965 Act
  179. Explanatory note