Clergy Pensions (Amendment) Measure 1972 (repealed)

4 Pensions for widows. U.K.

(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(2) The amendments made by the preceding subsection, other than paragraph (ii) of the new proviso, shall not affect any widow who is in receipt of a pension at the passing of this Measure.

(3) Where directions given by virtue of section 2(1) of this Measure have effect as from a date before the passing of this Measure, and a clerk to whom the directions are or would have been applicable dies on or after the said date and before receiving the increased pension payable in accordance with the directions, he shall be deemed for the purpose of calculating his widow’s pension under the said section 10(1) of the principal Measure to have been in receipt of that increased pension at the time of his death.

(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3

(6) Where a clerk dies after the passing of this Measure leaving a widow, and the clerk—

(a) was transferred under section 41 or section 42 of the principal Measure to the pensions scheme of any church to which section 41 applies or any authority mentioned in section 42; and

(b) before the transfer paid contributions under section 11 or section 14 of the principal Measure or Part II of the M1 Clergy Pensions Measure 1948, not being contributions in respect of which a repayment was made by the board under section 1(4) of the M2 Clergy Pensions (Amendment) Measure 1967 or the said section 14, as the case may be;

the Board shall grant to his widow in respect of those contributions a pension at such rate as an actuary may certify to be proper.

(7) Section 12 of the principal Measure shall have effect, in relation to any widow who at the passing of this Measure is in receipt of a pension under that section or thereafter becomes entitled thereto, with the omission of the words “so long as she remains a widow”.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 4(1) repealed by S.I. 1975/136, reg. 8(5)

F2 S. 4(4) repealed (with saving) by S.I. 1985/2081, regs. 3(2), 5(b)

F3 S. 4(5) repealed (with saving) by S.I. 1985/2081, regs. 3(2), 5(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 1948 No. 1.

M2 1967 No. 1.