Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 862

PENSIONS

The Superannuation (Children’s Pensions) (Earnings Limit) Order 1991

Made

28th March 1991

Laid before Parliament

3rd April 1991

Coming into force

8th April 1991

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 21(5) of the Judicial Pensions Act 1981(1) and now vested in them(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Superannuation (Children’s Pensions) (Earnings Limit) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 8th April 1991.

Increase in children’s earnings limit

2. The sum mentioned in section 21(1)(c)(ii) of the Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (which excludes from the definition of “period of childhood and full-time education” a person over 16 who is undergoing training if the emoluments payable by his employer are more than the said sum) is hereby increased from £1398 to £1550.

Revocation of previous order

3. The Superannuation (Children’s Pensions) (Earnings Limit) Order 1990(3) is hereby revoked.

Sydney Chapman

Nicholas Baker

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

28th March 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Subject to certain conditions section 21 of the Judicial Pensions Act 1981 permits the payment of a children’s pension under that Act to continue after the child reaches the age of 16 if the child is undergoing training for a trade, profession or vocation. One of the conditions is that the emoluments received during training, excluding any emoluments receivable or payable by way of return of any premium paid in respect of the training, do not exceed £1398 a year. This Order revokes the Superannuation (Children’s Pensions) (Earnings Limit) Order 1990 and increases the limit on such emoluments from £1398 to £1550 a year.

(1)

1981 c. 20.

(2)

SeeThe Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Serviceand Treasury) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1670), article 2(1)(c).

(3)

S.I. 1990/230.