Statement by the European Union for Closing Reinforced Plenary Session
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Subject to the following provisions of this Act, the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund (in this Act referred to as “the Fund”) shall continue to exist on and after the day on which this section comes into force with the same trustees as it had immediately before that day.
The House of Commons shall have power by Order of the House to remove a trustee of the Fund and, subject to any provision made under section 2 below as to the qualification or number of trustees, to fill any vacancy in the trustees and to appoint additional trustees.
The trustees of the Fund may invest the assets of the Fund, whether at the time in a state of investment or not, in any investment whatever and may also from time to time vary any such investments.
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a Member of the House of Commons;
the holder of any of the offices specified in Parts I to IV of Schedule 1 to the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (ministerial offices);
the holder of any office specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to that Act (Opposition leaders and whips); or
the holder of the office of Chairman of Ways and Means, Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords or Deputy Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords.
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include all or any of the provisions specified in Schedule 1 to this Act;
subject to subsection (5) below, make provision which has effect—
from a date earlier than the date of the making of the regulations containing the provision; or
in relation to service before the passing of this Act (including, in the case of service falling within subsection (2)(b) or (c) above, service before the passing of the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975);
make different provision in relation to different cases, circumstances or persons; and
make such incidental, consequential and transitional provision as the Leader of the House of Commons considers appropriate.
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that the person in respect of whose service the right has accrued or, as the case may be, will have accrued by the time when the regulations come into force is, at the time of the making of the regulations, in service to which this section applies; or
that an opportunity is given under the regulations for that person or (where that person has died) for the persons who are or may become entitled by virtue of that right to or to the benefit of any pension, or for a person acting on behalf of that person or those persons, to opt for the accrued right to remain unaffected by the regulations.
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Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of treating the enactments and subordinate legislation which relate to the Fund and the payment of pensions out of the Fund and which are in force immediately before the coming into force of this section as if they were contained in regulations made under this section.
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has accrued under the Parliamentary pension scheme in respect of so much of any person’s service as was before the making of the regulations; or
by the time when the regulations come into force, will have accrued under that scheme in respect of any service of a person whose service to which this section applies includes a period of service before the making of the regulations.
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In respect of each financial year an Exchequer contribution shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament into the Fund.
Subject to subsection (6) below, the amount of the contribution to be paid under subsection (1) above in respect of any financial year shall be calculated in accordance with the recommendations for that year contained in a report made under this section by the Government Actuary.
As soon as practicable after the beginning of the period of three years beginning with the relevant date and of each succeeding period of three years, the Government Actuary shall make a report to the trustees of the Fund and to the Treasury on the general financial position of the Fund as at the commencement of the period of three years in which the report is made.
Each report under this section shall contain a recommendation of the Government Actuary as to the rate at which Exchequer contributions should (subject to any subsequent report under this section) be paid into the Fund under this section in respect of any financial year beginning after the report is made; and that rate shall be expressed by reference to such matters as the Government Actuary considers appropriate.
A copy of every report made by the Government Actuary under this section shall be laid before the House of Commons.
Notwithstanding the repeals made by this Act, section 5 of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972 shall continue to have effect after the coming into force of this section for the purpose— and for the purposes of this subsection any recommendation contained in a report made under that section in respect of the three year period mentioned in paragraph (a) above shall, so far as it relates to the last year of that period (and except in so far as the Government Actuary otherwise recommends in the report), be treated as the recommendation to be taken into account under that section in relation to any financial year beginning after the end of the said last year and before the making of the said first report.
of requiring a report to be made by the Government Actuary in accordance with that section in respect of any three year period which is current for the purposes of that section when this section comes into force and in respect of which no report has already been so made;
of requiring any report so made to be laid before the House of Commons; and
of determining the amount of the Exchequer contribution to be paid into the Fund in respect of any financial year beginning before the making of the first report to be made under this section;
In this section “the relevant date” means the date immediately following the end of the three year period which is current for the purposes of the said section 5 when this section comes into force.
Subsection (2) of section 1 of Mr Speaker King’s Retirement Act 1971 shall have effect as from the coming into force of this subsection as if the annuity which would have been payable to Una, the late Lady Maybray-King, if she had survived the late Lord Maybray-King were required to be paid, during her life, to Sheila, Lady Maybray-King, his widow.
In the proviso to the said subsection (2) (application of terms and conditions applying under Part I of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972), for the words from “Part I” onwards there shall be substituted the words “ the parliamentary pension scheme (within the meaning of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987) ”.
There shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund any increase attributable to this section in the sums so charged and paid under the said Act of 1971.
In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires—
“the appointed day” means the day on which section 2 of this Act comes into force;
“pension” includes gratuity;
“the Leader of the House of Commons” means the Minister of the Crown who is for the time being designated as Leader of the House of Commons by the Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury;
“the Parliamentary pension scheme” means the provisions of any regulations made under section 2 above or of any enactment or subordinate legislation which by virtue of this Act has effect as if it were contained in regulations so made;
“modifications” includes additions, alterations and omissions, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;
“the Parliamentary pension scheme” means the provisions of any regulations made under section 2 above or of any enactment or subordinate legislation which by virtue of this Act has effect as if it were contained in regulations so made;
“pension” includes gratuity;
“subordinate legislation” has the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act 1978.
For the purposes of this Act a person shall be treated as a Member of the House of Commons at any time if, at that time, a salary is or was payable to him under
section 4 of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009, or
in relation to a time before that section was in force, the resolutions of the House of Commons then in force relating to the remuneration of its members.
Schedule 3 to this Act, which in connection with the provisions of this Act makes certain modifications and savings, shall have effect.
Subject to section 3(6) above and Schedules 2 and 3 to this Act, the enactments mentioned in Schedule 4 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987.
This Act shall come into force on such day as the Leader of the House of Commons may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and different days may be so appointed for different provisions or for different purposes.
This Act extends to Northern Ireland.
Section 2.
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in which amounts equal to some or all of the contributions and other sums paid by or on behalf of a person into the Fund may be repaid or paid to him; and
in which any such amounts are to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund in respect of any transfer values paid into that Fund,
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Section 2.
Notwithstanding the repeals made by this Act, on and after the appointed day the existing enactments shall have effect, subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, as if they were contained in regulations made under and in accordance with section 2 of this Act and could be modified accordingly. In any enactment contained in Part I of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972, as that enactment has effect under sub-paragraph (1) above, any reference to section 31 of that Act shall have effect as a reference to the provisions, as from time to time modified by virtue of paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to this Act, of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 and sections 59 and 59A of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975. In subsection (1) of section 24 of the said Act of 1972 (payments due to deceased persons), as it has effect under sub-paragraph (1) above, the reference to the amount payments in excess of which cannot (except in so far as they are due by way of interest) be made under that subsection shall have effect as a reference to the amount of the limit for the time being specified by virtue of orders made from time to time under section 6 of the Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965 in the enactments listed in Part I of Schedule 1 to the said Act of 1965.
Where any of the existing enactments contains any power to make subordinate legislation, that power shall cease to have effect on the appointed day, but on and after that day any subordinate legislation which was made under that power and is in force immediately before that day shall have effect, with the necessary modifications, as if it were contained in regulations made under and in accordance with section 2 of this Act and could be modified accordingly.
Where for the purpose of determining the enactments and subordinate legislation which have effect under paragraphs 1 and 2 above it is necessary to take account of any modifications or successive modifications of any enactment or subordinate legislation as originally enacted or made— On and after the appointed day so much of any enactment or subordinate legislation as, notwithstanding its modification by any other enactment or subordinate legislation, is continuing immediately before that day to have effect, in relation to particular cases, circumstances or persons— shall continue to have effect in accordance with the provision or saving, or with the said section 36(2), as if it too were contained in regulations made under and in accordance with section 2 of this Act and could be modified accordingly. Sub-paragraph (2) above shall apply to the provisions of section 8 of the Parliamentary Pensions Act 1978 (as they have effect by virtue of sections 3(1) and 5(7) of the Parliamentary Pensions etc. Act 1984) as it applies to the other enactments repealed by virtue of the said section 3(1). In subsection (2) of section 14 of the Ministerial Salaries and Members Pensions Act 1965 (payments due to deceased persons), as it has effect under sub-paragraph (2) above, the reference to the amount payments in excess of which cannot (except in so far as they are due by way of interest) be made under that subsection shall have effect as a reference to the amount of the limit for the time being specified by virtue of orders made from time to time under section 6 of the Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965 in the enactments listed in Part I of Schedule 1 to the last-mentioned Act of 1965.
Anything done before the appointed day under or for the purposes of any provision which by virtue of this Schedule has effect as if it were contained in regulations made under section 2 of this Act shall have effect on and after that day as if it had been done under or for the purposes of that provision as so contained. Subject to any regulations made under section 2 of this Act, any reference in any enactment or subordinate legislation, or in any deed or other instrument or document, to any provision which by virtue of this Schedule has effect as if it were contained in regulations so made shall have effect, so far as necessary for the purposes of or in connection with the provisions of this Schedule, as a reference to the corresponding provision having effect as if so contained. Where any period of time specified in any enactment or subordinate legislation having effect under this Schedule as if it were contained in regulations made under section 2 of this Act is current on the appointed day, this Schedule shall have effect in relation to that period as if the appointed day had been before the period began to run.
In this Schedule —
“the appointed day” means the day on which section 2 of this Act comes into force;
“commencement or transitional provision” includes so much of any provision as provides for, or is to be construed as providing for, any enactment or subordinate legislation to come into force only with effect from a particular time or only in relation to particular cases, circumstances or persons; and
“commencement or transitional provision” includes so much of any provision as provides for, or is to be construed as providing for, any enactment or subordinate legislation to come into force only with effect from a particular time or only in relation to particular cases, circumstances or persons; and
“the existing enactments” means the following enactments as they have effect immediately before the appointed day, namely—
the enactments contained in Part I of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972 (including Schedules 1 and 2), other than sections 1(1) to (4) and (7), 5, 23 and 24(4);
sections 30, 33 and 35 of the said Act of 1972; and
without prejudice to section 20(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978 (references to enactments) in its application in relation to paragraphs (a) and (b) above, sections 2 to 5, 6(2), 7, 11, 12(8) and 18(2) and (3) of the Parliamentary Pensions Act 1978 and sections 3(4) to (6), 4(3) to (6), 5(1) and (2) and 6 of the Parliamentary Pensions etc. Act 1984.
“the existing enactments” means the following enactments as they have effect immediately before the appointed day, namely—
the enactments contained in Part I of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972 (including Schedules 1 and 2), other than sections 1(1) to (4) and (7), 5, 23 and 24(4);
sections 30, 33 and 35 of the said Act of 1972; and
without prejudice to section 20(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978 (references to enactments) in its application in relation to paragraphs (a) and (b) above, sections 2 to 5, 6(2), 7, 11, 12(8) and 18(2) and (3) of the Parliamentary Pensions Act 1978 and sections 3(4) to (6), 4(3) to (6), 5(1) and (2) and 6 of the Parliamentary Pensions etc. Act 1984.
Section 6.
For the purposes of section 2 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (pensions of persons transferring to different employment) a person’s service— shall be treated as employment within the meaning of the said Act of 1948, whether or not it would be so treated apart from this paragraph. Without prejudice to the power conferred by virtue of paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to this Act, regulations under section 2 of this Act may make provision specifying the circumstances in which any person is to be regarded for the purposes of this paragraph as being a participant in relation to his membership of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, or in relation to any office, in arrangements contained in the Parliamentary pension scheme. In relation to any time before the coming into force of the first regulations to be made containing any such provision as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above a person shall be treated as a participant in arrangements contained in the Parliamentary pension scheme— Nothing in this Act shall affect the validity of any rules which are in force at the coming into force of this paragraph under section 2 of the said Act of 1948 or which have effect under section 36(4) of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972 as if they were so in force.
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In section 5(3) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (power to modify Act in relation to certain official pensions), the reference to the provisions of that Act and of sections 59 and 59A of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 shall include a reference to those provisions as they have effect in consequence of the following provisions of this paragraph. Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of Part I and section 34(1) of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972, section 19(2)(a) of the said Act of 1971 shall continue to have effect, after the coming into force of the repeal, with the amendment made by the said section 34(1). In Schedule 2 to the said Act of 1971, for paragraph 3A there shall be substituted the following paragraph— Without prejudice to paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to this Act— Subject to any regulations made under section 2 of this Act, the provisions of the said Act of 1971 and of the said sections 59 and 59A shall not be taken into account in calculating any amount—
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In section 1(5)(b) of the House of Commons Members’ Fund and Parliamentary Pensions Act 1981 (disqualification from benefit of certain office holders and persons receiving pensions), for the words from “a qualifying office” to “that Act” there shall be substituted the words “ an office mentioned in paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of section 2(2) of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987 or is in receipt of a pension under the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972. ”
Section 6. Chapter Short title Extent of repeal 1965 c. 32. The Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965. In section 6(1)(b), the words from “section 14(2)” to “1972”. 1972 c. 48. The Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972. Part I. Section 30. In section 31, subsection (1), in subsection (4) the words “and by section 22(3) of the Act of 1978” and subsection (5). Sections 33 and 34. In section 35(1), the definitions of “the Act of 1978”, “contribution”, “effective resolu-tion” and “interest”. Section 36(1), (2) and (4). Schedules 1 to 4. 1975 c. 72. The Children Act 1975. In Schedule 3, paragraph 77. 1976 c. 48. The Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1976. Sections 1 to 4. 1978 c. 56. The Parliamentary Pensions Act 1978. The whole Act. 1981 c. 7. The House of Commons Members’ Fund and Parliamentary Pensions Act 1981. Section 4. Section 5(2). 1983 c. 20. The Mental Health Act 1983. In Schedule 4, paragraph 31. 1984 c. 52. The Parliamentary Pensions etc. Act 1984. Sections 1 to 11. Section 15(2)(a). Section 16. The Schedule. 1986 c. 50. The Social Security Act 1986. In section 17(3), paragraph (f).