The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Adjustment in reckonable service

3.  Regulation E2 of the principal Regulations shall be amended by —

(a) substituting for the words “participating Member in service on 1st April 1995” in paragraph (1A)(1) the words “participant in service on or after 1st April 1995”; and

(b) inserting in paragraph (2), at the beginning, the words “Subject to paragraph (2A) below,” and by inserting after that paragraph the following paragraph —

“(2A) In the case of a participant in service on or after 1st July 1996, where his aggregate period of reckonable service as a participating office holder includes service which is treated as ending before 20th July 1983 by virtue of article 10(1)(ii) of the Parliamentary Pensions (Added Years and Rates of Accrual) (Further Provisions) Order 1984(2), the period of such service shall be multiplied by five-sixths.”; and

(c) adding in paragraph (3), after the words “added years”, the words “, subject to any adjustment made by virtue of paragraphs (1A) or (2A) above.”

(1)

Paragraph (1A) was inserted by S.I. 1995/2867.

(2)

S.I. 1984/1908, which was revoked with savings by S.I. 1993/3253.