This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2004/1711 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
PENSIONS
Made
14th March 2005
Laid before Parliament
15th March 2005
Coming into force
8th April 2005
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Increase (Civil Service Injury Benefits Scheme) Regulations 2005, and shall come into force on 8th April 2005, but shall have effect from 1st October 2002.
2. In these Regulations:
“the 1971 Act” means the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971;
“pension” means a pension within the meaning of the 1971 Act;
“the scheme” means the Civil Service Injury Benefits Scheme.
3. The 1971 Act shall have effect in relation to any pensions payable under the scheme (being a scheme under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972(3) made by virtue of section 2(2) of that Act) as if they were pensions specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act.
4. The Pensions Increase (Civil Service Injury Benefits Scheme) Regulations 2004(4) are hereby revoked.
Jim Murphy
Joan Ryan
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
14th March 2005
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations apply the provisions of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 to any pension payable under the Civil Service Injury Benefits Scheme. The rate of any such pension is thereby increased annually in accordance with the Retail Prices Index. They revoke the Pensions Increase (Civil Service Injury Benefits Scheme) Regulations 2004.