Clergy Pensions (Amendment) Measure 1967 (repealed)

3 Power to make lump sum payments in addition to pensions. E

(1) As from such date as may be specified in rules made under this section, the [F1 Board] may, subject to and in accordance with such rules, make lump sum payments to [F2 scheme numbers] entitled to pensions under [F3 the past service scheme (within the meaning assigned to that expression by the Pensions Measure 1997)], in addition to those pensions.

[F4 (1A) As from such date as may be specified in rules made under this section, the Commissioners may, subject to and in accordance with such rules, authorise the Board to make lump sum payments on the death of scheme members.]

(2) The Board may make rules for the purposes of this section, and any such rules shall be agreed with the Commissioners and shall be laid before the Church Assembly and shall not come into operation until they have been approved by the Church Assembly.

[F5 (2A) Where the Standing Committee of the General Synod determines that any Rules made under this section do not need to be debated by the General Synod, then, unless—

(a) notice is given by a member of the General Synod in accordance with its Standing Orders that he wishes the Rules to be debated, F6 ...

F6 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

the Rules shall for the purposes of subsection (2) above be deemed to have been approved by the General Synod F7 ....]

[F8 (3) For the purposes of any rules made under this section a scheme member who—

(a) before attaining the retiring age ceases to perform pensionable service, and

(b) on the date on which he attains that age is neither performing such service nor in receipt of a pension in respect of such service,

shall be deemed to have retired on that date.

(4) A clerk who—

(a) is deposed from Holy Orders, or

(b) executes a deed of relinquishment under the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870,

is still a clerk for the purposes of any rules made under this section; and if at the date on which the clerk is so deposed or on which the deed is recorded in the diocesan registry under section 4 or 5 of that Act the clerk has attained the retiring age he shall be deemed to have retired on that date, and if at that date he has not attained the retiring age he shall be deemed to have retired on the date on which he attains that age.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in s. 3(1) substituted (1.1.1998) by 1997 No. 1, s. 10(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 14(a); Instrument dated 28.11.1997 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York

F2 Words substituted by Church of England (Pensions) Measure 1988 (No. 4, SIF 21:5), ss. 5(a), 10(3)

F3 Words in s. 3(1) substituted (1.1.1998) by 1997 No. 1, s. 10(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 14(b); Instrument dated 28.11.1997 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York

F4 By 1997 No. 1, s. 10(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I it is provided (1.1.1997) that s. 3(1A) is repealed (with saving in s. 10(3)); Instrument dated 28.11.1997 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

F5 S. 3(2A) inserted (01.10.1992) by S.I. 1992/1748, art. 2.

F6 S. 3(2A)(b) and word omitted (coming into force in accordance with art. 2 of the commencing S.I.) by virtue of Pensions (Pre-consolidation) Measure 2018 (No. 2), s. 2(3), Sch. para. 9(a); S.I. 2018/716, art. 2

F7 Words in s. 3(2A) omitted (coming into force in accordance with art. 2 of the commencing S.I.) by virtue of Pensions (Pre-consolidation) Measure 2018 (No. 2), s. 2(3), Sch. para. 9(b); S.I. 2018/716, art. 2

F8 S. 3(3)(4) added by S.I. 1988/2239, reg. 4