Statutory Instruments
2011 No. 826
Pensions
The Pensions Increase (Modification) Regulations 2011
Made
16th March 2011
Laid before Parliament
17th March 2011
Coming into force
10th April 2011
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Increase (Modification) Regulations 2011, and shall come into force on 10th April 2011.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“the 1971 Act” means the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971;
“the 1975 Act” means the Social Security Pensions Act 1975( 3 ).
Modification
3. The provisions of section 59 of the 1975 Act shall apply in relation to an official pension( 4 ) subject to the modification in regulation 4.
4. “Base period”, in relation to the direction specified in regulation 5, means the period ending with the coming into force of that direction and beginning on 12th April 2010.
5. The direction specified in this regulation is the direction mentioned in section 59(1) of the 1975 Act coming into force on 11th April 2011( 5 ).
Michael Fabricant
James Duddridge
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
16th March 2011
1971 c.56 ; section 5(3) was amended by Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c.60) , Schedule 4, paragraph 18, S.I. 1974/1264 and S.I. 1979/1451 .
By virtue of article 2(1)(c) and (d) of the Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) Order 1981 ( S.I. 1981/1670 ).
1975 c.60 . By virtue of section 59(7), as amended by the Social Security Act 1979 (c.18) , Schedule 3, paragraph 20, section 59 and section 59A of the 1975 Act and the 1971 Act have effect as if section 59 and section 59A were contained in Part I of the 1971 Act.
By virtue of section 9(1) of the 1971 Act references to a pension apply in relation to any allowance, benefit or compensation whether it takes the form of periodical payments or of a gratuity or other lump sum.
This direction is contained in S.I.2011/821 .