The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Made: 9th March 2015

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 2015

Coming into force: 1st April 2015

In accordance with section 3(5) of that Act, these Regulations are made with the consent of the Treasury.

Citation and commencement

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2015.

• (2) These Regulations come into force on 1st April 2015.

Amendments to the Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations 2014

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• (1) The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations 2014[^f00002] are amended as follows.

• (2) In regulation 2, for the definition of “partnership pension account” substitute the following—

• “partnership pension account”, in relation to a person in service in a scheme employment, means a stakeholder pension scheme or a personal pension scheme— to which the person’s employer is paying contributions; to which the person’s employer is not paying contributions because– the person received benefits under section 2 (compulsory and redundancy category (1972 Section members)) of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme or section 3 (flexible category (1972 Section members)) of that Scheme on the basis that the person’s reckonable service within the meaning of those sections was enhanced; and the period by which the person’s reckonable service was enhanced exceeds the period beginning with the day on which the person’s retirement under those sections began and ending with the day before the person was re-employed in the scheme employment; or to which the person’s employer is not paying contributions because the person is not receiving earnings which are pensionable earnings for the purposes of the person’s pension scheme (other than because the person is on an unauthorised absence);

• (3) After regulation 182 insert—

(183) Schedule 3 (which makes provision for ill-health benefits for persons who have a partnership pension account) has effect. (184) Schedule 4 (which makes provision for death benefits in respect of persons who have a partnership pension account) has effect.

• (4) After Schedule 2 (transitional provisions) insert new Schedules 3 and 4 as set out in Schedules 1 and 2 to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

Signed

Signed

Francis Maude — Minister for the Cabinet Office — Cabinet Office — 9th March 2015

We consent

Mark Lancaster — David Evennett — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 9th March 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations 2014 (the 2014 Regulations) (S.I. 2014/1964) so as to make provision in relation to persons who have a partnership pension account.

Schedule 2 to these Regulations inserts new Schedule 3 into the 2014 Regulations which makes provision for ill-health benefits for persons who have a partnership pension account. Schedule 3 to these Regulations inserts new Schedule 4 into the 2014 Regulations which makes provision for death benefits in respect of persons who have a partnership pension account. The provision made by these Schedules replaces the Partnership Pension Account Ill Health Benefits Scheme and the Partnership Pension Account Death Benefits Scheme, made under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), which schemes are to be closed.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the costs of business or the voluntary sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2013 c. 25.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2014/1964 amended by S.I. 2015/372.