Incumbents (Vacations of Benefices) Measure 1977
7Schedule 2 to the Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977 is amended as follows—
(a)in paragraph 2(1)(a)(i), after the words “ecclesiastical service” there are inserted the words “, in respect of service served up to 31st December 1997 and in pensionable service within the meaning of rules made under section 2 of the Pensions Measure 1997 (“the Funded Scheme rules”), in respect of service served after that date”;
(b)in paragraph 2(2)(b), after the words “pension regulations” there are inserted the words “or the Funded Scheme rules”;
(c)in paragraph 2(2)(c), for the words from “whole-time” to “pensions regulations)” there are substituted the words “service which is pensionable service within the meaning of the Funded Scheme rules”;
(d)for paragraph 2(4) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(4)The period during which a person is in receipt of periodical payments under paragraph 2 shall be deemed to be a period of pensionable service for the purposes of the Funded Scheme rules, but shall not constitute “service” for any other purpose of those rules”;
(e)in paragraph 7 there are added the words “and, in the case of a person who is in receipt of periodical payments under paragraph 2, the diocesan board of finance is “the responsible body” for the purposes of section 4 of the Pensions Measure 1997”; and
(f)in paragraph 8—
(i)in sub-paragraph (1), after the definition of “pensions regulations” there are inserted, at the appropriate place, the following definitions—
“the Funded Scheme Rules” means the rules made under section 2 of the Pensions Measure 1997,
“stipendiary ecclesiastical service” has the same meaning as in the pensions regulations, and
“retiring age” has the same meaning as in the Funded Scheme rules; and
(ii)sub-paragraph (2) is omitted.