The Pensions Increase (Pension Scheme for Keir Starmer QC) Regulations 2013

Made: 8th October 2013

Laid before Parliament: 9th October 2013

Coming into force: 31st October 2013

The Treasury, in exercise of the power conferred by section 5(2) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971[^f00001] and now vested in them[^f00002] hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Increase (Pension Scheme for Keir Starmer QC) Regulations 2013, and come into force on 31st October 2013.

Interpretation

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• (1) In these Regulations, “the 1971 Act” means the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971.

• (2) For the purposes of these Regulations the time when a pension “begins” is that stated in section 8(2) of the 1971 Act[^f00003].

Pensions to which the 1971 Act shall apply

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The 1971 Act shall have effect in relation to any pension payable under the Pension Scheme for Keir Starmer QC (being a scheme made under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972[^f00004]), as if it were a pension specified in Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act.

Signed

Desmond Swayne — Stephen Crabb — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 8th October 2013

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations apply the provisions of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 to any pension payable under the pension scheme made under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 for the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations as they have no impact upon the private or voluntary sectors.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1971 c. 56.

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

[^f00003]: Section 8(2) was amended by section 1(5) of the Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 7), and sections 39(1) and (4) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30).

[^f00004]: 1972 c. 11.