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Public Service Pensions Act 2013

Paragraphs 4 and 5: Pensions (Increase) Act 1971

268.Paragraph 4 amends the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 to clarify how the uprating provisions in that Act operate on public service pensions that are either protected by the final salary link in Schedule 7 or are career average schemes to which the restrictions in sections 18(1) or 31(2) apply.

269.Paragraph 5 adds pensions made under the Act to the list of official pensions in Schedule 2 of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971. The effect is to provide for the annual uprating of deferred pensions and pensions in payment under the mechanism which that Act provides.

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