The Pensions Increase (Speakers' Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made: 21st March 1991

Laid before Parliament: 22nd March 1991

Coming into force: 8th April 1991

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(3) ofthe Pensions (Increase) Act 1971[^f00001] and now vested in them[^f00002], and all other powers enabling them in that behalf,hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Increase (Speaker'sPensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1991, and shall come into force on 8thApril 1991.

Interpretation

2

In these Regulations–

• “the principal Regulations” means the Pensions Increase (Speaker’s Pensions) Regulations 1972[^f00003];

3

The principal Regulations shall be amended–

• (1) by deleting regulation 4, the words“Subject to paragraph (2) below” in regulation 5(1), regulation 5(2), the words“Subject to paragraph (3) below” in regulation 6(2), and regulation 6(3);

• (2) by inserting after the words“subject to sub-paragraph (c)” in regulation 6(2)(b) the words“or (d)”;

• (3) by inserting after the words“in the case of a person who ceases to hold office as Speaker of theHouse of Commons”, in regulation 6(2)(c) the words“before 28th February 1991 and”; and

• (4) by inserting after regulation 6(2)(c) the following:

(d) in the case of the person who held the office of Speaker of theHouse of Commons on 28th February 1991, on the date of the last increasein the annual amount of the salary payable in respect of that officebefore that person ceases to hold such office, notwithstanding that thatdate may precede the date when the person actually ceases to hold suchoffice.

Signed

Gregory Knight — Nicholas Baker — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 21st March 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Pensions Increase (Speaker’s Pensions)Regulations 1972 as amended by the Pensions Increase (Speaker'sPensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1979 to remove the provisions that theincreases under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 added to the basicpension payable to or in respect of a past Speaker should not exceed thepension which would be payable to or in respect of the current Speakerif he ceased to hold that office. The Regulations also provide that thedeemed beginning date of the pension (namely the date of the lastincrease in the pension which would be payable to the current Speaker ifhe ceased to hold office) shall not, with the exception of the holder ofthe office at 28th February 1991, apply to future Speakers who cease tohold office after the 28th February 1991. The beginning date of thepensions of future Speakers will be the day following the last day ofservice in respect of which the pension is payable, in accordance withsection 8(2) of the 1971 Act.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1971 c. 56.

[^f00002]: By virtue of article 2(1)(c) of the Transfer ofFunctions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) Order 1981 (S.I.1981/1670).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1972/1653, amended by the Pensions Increase(Speaker’s Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/762).