http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1993/3/section/9Ordination of Women (Financial Provisions) Measure 1993A Measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England to make provision as to the relief of hardship incurred by persons resigning from ecclesiastical service by reason of opposition to the ordination of women as priests, and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2011-05-261993-11-05 91Where pension is payable under the pensions regulations to a person who has received periodical payments under section 1(1)(b) above, the Commissioners shall augment the pension so as to ensure that it is at the same rate as it would have been had the period during which the periodical payments were made been one of pensionable service for the purposes of the regulations.2Nothing in this Measure affects the entitlement of any person to receive a pension under the pensions regulations where he retires before attaining the retiring age.