Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 563
Public Service Pensions
The Pensions Increase (Commissioners of Irish Lights) Regulations 2014
Made
10th March 2014
Laid before Parliament
11th March 2014
Coming into force
1st April 2014
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Increase (Commissioners of Irish Lights) Regulations 2014, and come into force on 1st April 2014.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“the 1971 Act” means the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971( 3 );
“Commissioners of Irish Lights pension scheme” means the pension scheme operated by the Commissioners of Irish Lights;
“deferred member” has the same meaning as in section 124 of the Pensions Act 1995( 4 );
“pensioner member” has the same meaning as in section 124 of the Pensions Act 1995( 5 );
“Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme” means the pension scheme of that name established under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972( 6 );
“relevant pension” means the rights to benefits accrued in the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme—
as a result of the relevant transfer; and
in respect of which the relevant type A person or the relevant type B person was a deferred member or a pensioner member of the Commissioners of Irish Lights pension scheme immediately before the relevant transfer;
“relevant type A person” means a person who—
immediately before the relevant transfer, had benefits accrued in the Commissioners of Irish Lights pension scheme; and
those benefits had not been increased, in the calendar year preceding the relevant transfer, as if under an order made under section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975( 7 );
“relevant type B person” means a person who—
immediately before the relevant transfer, had benefits accrued in the Commissioners of Irish Lights pension scheme; and
those benefits had been increased, in the calendar year preceding the relevant transfer, as if under an order made under section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;
“relevant transfer” means the bulk transfer, made on 1st April 2014, into the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme, by means of a transfer payment in respect of rights to benefits accrued in the Commissioners of Irish Lights pension scheme.
Application of the 1971 Act to a relevant pension after the relevant transfer
3. The provisions of the 1971 Act shall apply—
(a) to the relevant pension of a relevant type A person as if it was deemed by section 8(2) of that Act( 8 ) to begin on the 2nd April 2014;
(b) to the relevant pension of a relevant type B person as if it was deemed by section 8(2) of that Act to begin on the 8th April 2013.
Signed
Mark Lancaster
Sam Gyimah
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
10th March 2014
1971 c. 56 , as amended by the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c.60) , paragraph 18 of Schedule 4, article 5(3) of S.I. 1974/1264 and Schedule 3 to S.I. 1979/1451 .
See article 2(1)(c) of S.I. 1981/1670 .
Section 59(7) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 provides that sections 59 and 59A of that Act have effect as if they were included in Part 1 of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971.
The definition of “pensioner member” in section 124 of the Pensions Act 1995 has been amended by the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c.19) , paragraph 8(3) of Schedule 5, and S.I 2006/745 , article 10(1) and (7).
1975 c.60 , as amended by the Social Security Act 1979 (c.18) , section 11 and paragraph 20 of Schedule 3, the Social Security Act 1985 (c.53) , paragraph 33 of Schedule 5, the Social Security Act 1986 (c.50) , section 9, the Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990 (c.7) , sections 1 and 5 and Part 6 of Schedule 11, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c.6) , paragraph 34 of Schedule 2, the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c.48) , paragraph 9 of Schedule 8, the Pensions Act 2008 (c.30) , section 137.
As amended by the Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990, section 1(5), and the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c.30) , section 39(1) and (4).