Clergy Pensions Measure 1961

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46 Interpretation. E

(1)In this Measure, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings thereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—

“actuary” means a Fellow of the [F1Institute and Faculty of Actuaries][F2, not being a Church Commissioner or a member of the Board or a member of the staff of the Commissioners or the Board, and includes a firm of actuaries];
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“the Board” means the Church of England Pensions Board;
“child” includes a step-child and an adopted child;
“church worker” means any person (other than a clerk) who is or has been employed in spiritual or temporal work in connection with the Church of England;
[F4 “ clerk ” means any bishop, priest or deacon of the Church of England; ]
“the Commissioners” means the Church Commissioners;
“dependant” shall have such meaning for the purposes of this Measure as the Board may determine for the purposes of each case having regard to all the circumstances;
“diocesan bishop” means the bishop of any diocesan bishopric in England, whether created before or after the passing of this Measure, including the bishopric of Sodor and Man;
“ecclesiastical service” means service rendered under the direction of a diocesan bishop or carried on in furtherance of the spiritual or administrative work of the Church of England and recognised as such by a diocesan bishop;
[F5 “ funded scheme ” has the meaning assigned to that expression by the Pensions Measure 1997 ]
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[F7 “ licensed lay worker ” means a person who has been admitted by a bishop as a lay worker of the Church of England and who has been authorised by a bishop by licence to serve as such a worker, and includes a person who has been so admitted and has been so authorised otherwise than by licence if on the date on which section 1 of the Church of England (Pensions) Measure 1988 comes into force he was a member of the Church Workers Pension Fund ]
[F8 “ past service scheme ” has the meaning assigned to that expression by the Pensions Measure 1997; ]
“pensionable service” has the meaning assigned to it by section one of this Measure;
F9 [F10 . . . ]
“qualifying period of pensionable service” has the meaning assigned to it by the said section one;
[F11 “ retiring age ” means in the case of a man the age of 65 years or such earlier age as the General Synod may by resolution from time to time determine and in the case of a woman the age of 60 years or such other age as the General Synod may so determine; ]
[F12 “ scheme member ” means a clerk, deaconess or licensed lay worker, 1 ]
“stipend” includes salary and other emoluments;
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(2)References in this Measure to any Act or Measure shall be construed as references to that Act or Measure as amended by any subsequent Act or Measure.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 46(1) substituted (19.5.2014) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2014 (No. 1), s. 21(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(3); S.I. 2014/1369, art. 2

F2S. 46(1): Words in definition of “actuary” substituted (1.1.1998) by 1997 No. 1, s. 10(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 13(a); Instrument dated 28.11.1997 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York

F3Definitions repealed by S.I. 1988/2256, reg. 36, Sch. 2

F4Definition substituted for definitions of “clerk” and “clerk in Holy Orders” by S.I. 1988/2256, reg. 34(3)(a) (the definition of “clerk” inserted as provided by Church of England (Pensions) Measure 1988 (No. 4, SIF 21:5), ss. 10(3), 18(1), Sch. 2 para. 20(a)

F5S. 46(1): Definition of “funded scheme” inserted (1.1.1998) by 1997 No. 1, s. 10(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 13(b); Instrument dated 28.11.1997 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York

F6Definition repealed by S.I. 1988/2256, reg. 36, Sch. 2

F7Definition inserted by Church of England (Pensions) Measure 1988 (No. 4, SIF 21:5), ss. 10(3), 18(1), Sch. 2 para. 20(b)

F8S. 46(1): Definition of “past service scheme” inserted (1.1.1998) by 1997 No. 1, s. 10(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 13(c); Instrument dated 28.11.1997 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York

F9S. 46(1): Definition of “principal scheme” repealed (1.1.1998) by 1997 No. 1, s. 10(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I; Instrument dated 28.11.1997 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York

F10Definition inserted by S.I. 1988/2239, reg. 3

F11Definition substituted by Deacons (Ordination of Women) Measure 1986 (No. 4, SIF 21:5), s. 3(3), Sch. para. 4