The Transport Act 2000 (Civil Aviation Authority Pension Scheme) Order 2001

Before Normal Pension Date

27.2—(a) A Member of the NATS Section who on leaving Service or retiring before Normal Pension Date becomes entitled to a pension under Rule 32 may with the consent of the Trustees commence to receive such pension at any time on or after his 50th birthday, or earlier if he is retiring because of incapacity.

• Such pension shall include the increases described in Rule 24.3 calculated up to the date on which the pension is to commence, the total pension for that Member being, subject always to Appendix 4, reduced to such extent (if any) as the Trustees shall, on the advice of the Actuary, consider to be reasonable and determine to be appropriate having regard to, among other things, the period between the date of its commencement and Normal Pension Date but so that the reduced pension shall be not less than the actuarial equivalent of the pension which would have been payable under Rule 32 from the Member’s Normal Pension Date, provided always that in special circumstances specifically approved by the Sponsoring Section Employer the pension payable under the preceding provisions of this Rule 27.2 shall not, if the Sponsoring Section Employer so determines and subject as hereinafter provided, be reduced as described above in this Rule and the provision of such unreduced pension shall be regarded as augmentation of benefit in accordance with Rule 12 and shall be subject to payment by the Employer of the appropriate additional contribution to the NATS Section.