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The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART A Preliminary

    1. A1.Title and commencement

    2. A2.Interpretation

  3. PART B Trustees and Administration

    1. B1.Trustees and Administration

  4. PART C Membership

    1. C1.Membership for Members of the House of Commons

    2. C2.Membership for Prime Ministers and Speakers

    3. C3.Membership for Office Holders

    4. C4.Right to opt out for Members of the House of Commons

    5. C5.Right to opt out for office holders.

    6. C6.Right to opt in for Members of the House of Commons

    7. C7.Right to opt in for office holders

  5. PART D Contributions

    1. D1.Contributions by participating Members

    2. D2.Contributions by participating office holders

    3. D3.Earnings Cap

  6. PART E Reckonable Service

    1. E1.Actual Reckonable Service

    2. E2.Aggregate Reckonable Service

  7. PART F Pension Entitlement

    1. F1.Entitlement of pensioner Members

    2. F2.Amount payable to pensioner Members

    3. F3.Entitlement of pensioner office holders

    4. F4.Amount payable to pensioner office holders

    5. F5.Permitted maximum pensions: pensioners who joined before 1st June 1989

    6. F6.Permitted maximum pensions: pensioners who joined after 1st June 1989

    7. F7.Guaranteed minimum pensions

    8. F8.Duration of pensions

  8. PART G Commutation

    1. G1.Commutation into lump sum

  9. PART H Early retirement and early abated pensions

    1. H1.Early retirement for Members

    2. H2.Early retirement for office holders who have been Members

  10. PART J Ill-health Pensions

    1. J1.Ill-health pensions based on service as a participating Member

    2. J2.Ill-health pensions based on service as an office holder

    3. J3.Ill-health pensions for former Members

    4. J4.Ill-health pensions for former office holders

    5. J5.Medical evidence

  11. PART K Widows, Widowers and Children

    1. K1.Equal Treatment

    2. K2.Pensions for Widows and Widowers

    3. K3.Pensions for Children

    4. K4.Death in service of participating Member

    5. K5.Enhancement of initial widows' and widowers' pensions

    6. K6.Meaning of “basic or prospective pension or pensions”

  12. PART L Death Gratuities

    1. L1.Gratuity on death in service

    2. L2.Gratuity on death after retirement

  13. PART M FIVE YEAR GUARANTEE

    1. M1.Entitlement

    2. M2.Guarantees for widows and widowers

    3. M3.Guarantees where children but no spouse survive

    4. M4.Guarantees where no survivors

    5. M5.Remarriage or cohabitation of surviving spouse

    6. M6.Early termination of child’s period of full time education

    7. M7.Deceased pensioner office holders

  14. PART N Refunds

    1. N1.Refund to contributor

    2. N2.Refund after death

    3. N3.Refund of Prime Ministers' and Speakers' contributions

    4. N4.Refund of Lord Chancellors' contributions

    5. N5.Deduction of tax from refunds of contributions

    6. N6.Deemed contributions

  15. PART P Transfers

    1. P1.Transfers to other pension schemes

    2. P2.Transfers to other pension schemes after opt out

    3. P3.Transfer to overseas pension schemes

    4. P4.Effect of transfers out on reckonable service

    5. P5.Certification by Government Actuary

    6. P6.Transfers from other pension schemes

  16. PART Q Added Years

    1. Q1.Purchase of added years by participating Members

  17. PART R Miscellaneous and Supplemental

    1. R1.Application of pensions

    2. R2.Payments due to deceased persons

    3. R3.Deferred Rights

    4. R4.Protection against adverse alterations

    5. R5.Revocations, savings and transitional provisions

  18. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund

      1. 1.General provisions as to Trustees

      2. 2.No person shall be appointed to be a Managing Trustee...

      3. 3.The Managing Trustees may act by a majority of those...

      4. 4.The procedure of the Trustees shall, subject to the provisions...

      5. 5.A direction of the Managing Trustees shall continue in force...

      6. 6.Distribution of functions between Custodian Trustee and Managing Trustees

      7. 7.The management of the Fund and the exercise of any...

      8. 8.As between the Custodian Trustee and the Managing Trustees, the...

      9. 9.The Custodian Trustee shall concur in and perform all acts...

      10. 10.The Custodian Trustee, if he acts in good faith, shall...

      11. 11.Administrative provisions

      12. 12.The Trustees of the Fund may appoint such person as...

      13. 13.The Trustees of the Fund shall review any acquisition or...

      14. 14.Upon a review pursuant to paragraph 13, the Trustees may...

      15. 15.The Custodian Trustee may charge such fees as he is...

      16. 16.The Trustees shall keep proper accounts and shall prepare in...

      17. 17.The Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine and certify every...

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Maximum Pensions

      1. 1.In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires: “Class A...

      2. 2.This Schedule sets out the maximum pension payable to a...

      3. 3.Class A Participant

      4. 4.Class B and Class C Participants

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      1. Part I Commutation of Pensions

        1. 1.(1) In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires— “Class...

        2. Class A Participant

        3. 2.Maximum commutation for Members (including those retiring on grounds of ill-health)

        4. 3.Maximum commutation for Members on early retirement

        5. 4.Maximum commutation for office holders (including those retiring on grounds of ill-health)

        6. 5.Maximum commutation for office holders on early retirement

        7. 6.Earnings cap

        8. 7.Class B and Class C Participants

      2. Part II Maximum Commutation of Pensions

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Percentage Abatement of Pension Entitlement

      1. 1.The pension to which a person is entitled by virtue...

      2. 2.The pension to which a person is entitled by virtue...

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      Persons Qualifying for Children’s Pensions

      1. 1.In this Schedule “the deceased” means the person on whose...

      2. 2.For the purposes of regulation K3 a child shall be...

      3. 3.A child shall not be treated as a relevant child...

      4. 4.A child shall not be treated as a relevant child...

      5. 5.A female child shall not be treated as a relevant...

      6. 6.Where the deceased was a woman, no child of any...

    6. SCHEDULE 6

      Purchase of Added Years

      1. 1.In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires— “payment for...

      2. 2.Purchase of added years by periodical contributions

      3. 3.An application by a participating Member to purchase added years...

      4. 4.Where an application by a participating Member to purchase added...

      5. 5.Interrupted Service

      6. 6.Purchase of added years by lump sum

      7. 7.Lump sum payments

      8. 8.Limits on purchase of added years

      9. 9.Further applications to purchase added years

      10. 10.General

    7. SCHEDULE 7

      Revocations

      1. Part I Enactments having effect as regulations under section 2 of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987

      2. Part II Other Instruments

      3. Part III Savings

        1. 1.The revocation by these Regulations of a transitional provision relating...

        2. 2.(1) The revocation by these Regulations of a provision previously...

      4. Part IV Transitional Provisions

        1. 1.(1) The re-enactment of provisions in these Regulations, and the...

        2. 2.Where a period of time specified in a provision of...

    8. SCHEDULE 8

      Reckonable Service

      1. 1.Participants with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978.

      2. 2.Participants with service between 2nd August 1978 and 19th July 1983

    9. SCHEDULE 9

      Pension Entitlement

      1. 1.Members with service between 1st January 1972 and 19th July 1983

      2. 2.Members whose service ended between 20th July 1983 and 31st July 1984

      3. 3.Office holders whose service ended between 1st April 1972 and 1st August 1978

      4. 4.(1) Subject to paragraph 4 of Schedule 10 and to...

      5. 5.Office holders whose service ended between 2nd August 1978 and 19th July 1983

      6. 6.Office holders whose service ended between 20th July 1983 and 31st July 1984

    10. SCHEDULE 10

      Early retirement and early abated pensions

      1. 1.Members with service between 1st January 1972 and 19th July 1983

      2. 2.Members with service between 20th July 1983 and 31st July 1984

      3. 3.Members with service between 1st August 1984 and 1st April 1991

      4. 4.Office holders with service between 1st January 1972 and 19th July 1983

      5. 5.Office holders with service between 20th July 1983 and 30th July 1984

      6. 6.Office holders with service between 31st July 1984 and 1st April 1991

    11. SCHEDULE 11

      Ill-health pensions

      1. 1.Members with preserved rights from before 1972

    12. SCHEDULE 12

      Widows, Widowers and Children

      1. 1.Widows of men with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978

      2. 2.Widows of men with service between 2nd August 1978 and 30th July 1984.

      3. 3.Widowers of women with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978.

      4. 4.Widowers of women with service between 2nd August 1978 and 30th July 1984.

      5. 5.Children of persons with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978

      6. 6.Children of persons with service between 2nd August 1978 and 30th July 1984

      7. 7.Meaning of “basic or prospective pension or pensions”: persons with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978.

      8. 8.Meaning of “basic or prospective pension or pensions”: persons with service between 2nd August 1978 and 30th July 1984

    13. SCHEDULE 13

      Gratuities on death after retirement

      1. 1.Persons with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978

      2. 2.Persons with service between 2nd August 1978 and 30th July 1984.

      3. 3.Persons with service between 31st July 1984 and 5th April 1988.

    14. SCHEDULE 14

      Refunds

      1. 1.Contributions paid under section 5 of the 1965 Act

  19. Explanatory Note

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