The Civil Service (Other Crown Servants) Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Made: 17th March 2022

Laid before Parliament: 18th March 2022

Coming into force: 1st April 2022

In accordance with section 21(1)[^f00002] of the 2013 Act, the Minister has consulted representatives of such persons as appear to him likely to be affected by these Regulations.

Citation and commencement

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Service (Other Crown Servants) Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2022.

• (2) These Regulations come into force on 1st April 2022.

Amendment of the Civil Service (Other Crown Servants) Pension Scheme Regulations 2016

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• (1) The Civil Service (Other Crown Servants) Pension Scheme Regulations 2016[^f00003] are amended as follows.

• (2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in the definition of “extraordinary members”, after “members of the” insert “Third Connected Scheme or the”.

• (3) In regulation 2A(1) (conditions of eligibility for a GCHQ eligible person)—

• (a) for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

(a) P was an active member of one of the following on the protected transfer date— (i) the First Connected Scheme; (ii) the Second Connected Scheme; (iii) the Third Connected Scheme; (iv) the Fourth Connected Scheme; (v) this scheme

• (b) in sub-paragraph (b)—

• (i) for “continues to be” substitute “is”;

• (ii) for “this scheme” substitute “one of the schemes listed in sub-paragraph (a)”.

• (4) In regulation 10 (modifications to the 2014 regulations)—

• (a) in paragraph (15)(a)(i), after “Second,” insert “Third”;

• (b) in paragraph (16)(b), in the modified paragraph 6A(3), for “31st March 2016” substitute “31st March 2022”.

Signed

Heather Wheeler — Minister for the Cabinet Office — Cabinet Office — 17th March 2022

We consent to the making of these Regulations

Michael Tomlinson — Alan Mak — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 16th March 2022

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend theCivil Service (Other Crown Servants) Pension Scheme Regulations 2016(S.I. 2016/326) (“the 2016 Regulations”), primarily in consequence of provision made by the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7).

The amendments ensure that the existing pension schemes referred to as the First, Second, Third and Fourth Connected Schemes in the 2016 Regulations will be closed to future service accrual on and after 1st April 2022. Any members currently in pensionable service under the First, Second, Third and Fourth Connected pension schemes will, on that date, begin accruing benefits in the scheme established by the 2016 Regulations, with members of the Third Connected Scheme becoming extraordinary members under the 2016 Regulations.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2013 c. 25. Section 3 was amended by section 94(2) to (6) of the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7).

[^f00002]: Section 21 was amended by section 94(8) of the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2016/326 as amended by S.I. 2019/906 and 2020/225.