The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993

means a period of reckonable service as a participating Member purchased under regulation Q1 and Schedule 6 including a part of a year expressed in days and any future added year;

has the meaning assigned to it by regulation K6;

has the same meaning as in that regulation.

means any participant who joined the principal scheme on or after 1st June 1989 or any other participant who has elected to become a Class A participant (however termed) under the rules of the principal scheme;

means any participant who joined the principal scheme on or after 17th March 1987 and before 1st June 1989 and has not elected to become a Class A participant;

means any participant who joined the principal scheme before 17th March 1987 and has not elected to become a Class A participant;

means an occupational pension scheme which is for the time being specified in a contracting-out certificate issued by the Occupational Pensions Board under regulations made in accordance with section 31 of the Pensions Act 1975;

has the same meaning as in section 42(1) of the Pensions Act 1975;

means a person who— (a) having been but having ceased to be a participant;

means a resolution of the House of Commons relating to the remuneration of Members which is not framed as an expression of opinion and where there are at any time two or more such resolutions in force they shall be read together;

means part of a year of reckonable service expressed as the proportion borne by the number of days in that part to three hundred and sixty-five;

means work under a contract of employment, or as the holder of an office, or as a self-employed person engaged in a business or profession, being in any case work from which the person concerned gains the whole or a substantial part of his income.

has the same meaning as in section 35 and section 36(3) of the Pensions Act 1975;

means the date on which a participant reaches the age of sixty-five;

means in respect of the pension of a person, the lesser of 40 years and the period in years and any fraction of a year of his prospective actual reckonable service at the relevant date;

means the holder of a qualifying office.

has the meaning assigned to it by regulation C4(4);

has the meaning assigned to it by regulation C5(4);

means a fund or scheme which is established outside the United Kingdom and wholly or primarily administered outside the United Kingdom;

means a person making contributions to the Fund;

means a person making contributions to the Fund deducted from his salary as a Member of the House of Commons (or who is excused from making such contributions because his aggregate period of reckonable service exceeds that which would give rise to the maximum pension allowed in respect of him under the principal scheme);

means a person making contributions to the Fund deducted from his salary as an office holder;

means such a payment whether payable periodically or by way of a single lump sum;

means a pension, expressed as an annual amount, under Part F (pension entitlement), Part H (early retirement) or Part J (ill-health pensions) as the case may be;

means actual service as a participant;

means a person entitled to receive a pension from the Fund;

means a person entitled to receive a pension from the Fund (including an early retirement pension or an ill health pension) in respect of his service as a Member of the House of Commons;

means a person entitled to receive a pension from the Fund (including an early retirement pension or an ill health pension) in respect of his service as an office holder;

means any continuous period beginning on or after 1st April 1972 for which a person is—

means the sums payable by a participating Member whose application to purchase added years other than by a single payment has been accepted by the Trustees. • “relevant terminal salary” has the same meaning as “the relevant terminal salary” in regulation F2(2);

means in respect of a person— (a) at a date falling before his sixty-fifth birthday, his actual reckonable service before and after that date, assuming continuous actual reckonable service by him from that date until his sixty-fifth birthday;

means any of the following offices— and “office holder” means the holder of a qualifying office.

(subject to the provisions of Schedule 5) means any child of the deceased, or of any wife or husband of the deceased who— “the provision as to cohabitation” means paragraph 1(4) of this Schedule, or that paragraph as applied by paragraph 3(5).

means the relevant date for the determination under any provision of these Regulations of the pension of a person;

has the same meaning as “the relevant terminal salary” in regulation F2(2);

means benefits for a participant derived from— (a) retirement benefits schemes approved or seeking approval under Chapter I Part XIV or relevant statutory schemes as defined in section 611A of the Taxes Act 1988, excluding benefits in respect of service;

means retained benefits which are payable as single payments whether by way of commutation of accrued pension rights, refund of contributions or otherwise;

(except in the expression “a Member’s ordinary salary”) means salary payable to the office holder in respect of his tenure of that office.

means service as a Member of the House of Commons or as an office holder, and includes, where appropriate, any increase in reckonable service attributable to sums received by way of transfer value or to the purchase of added years.

means a year beginning on the 6th April in any year and ending on the following 5th April. • “transfer premium” has the same meaning as in section 44A of the Pension Act 1975.

means the Ministerial Salaries and Members' Pensions Act 1965;

means the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972;

means the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987;

means the figure (whether being a whole number or not) by which the number of days comprised in the person’s actual period of reckonable service as a participating office holder must be multiplied in order to be equal to twelve months.

means— a in relation to the year beginning with 1st April 1984 and subsequent years, one-fiftieth;

means the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom;

means the person on whose death a children’s pension is or may be payable under regulation K3, and “child” has the same meaning as in that regulation.

means the time when the deceased in fact died.

means (a) subject to paragraph (b) below, in respect of a pension under regulation F1 of a person who is or has been a participating Member, the relevant terminal salary under regulation F2(2);

means the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;

means the scheme from time to time in force;

means paragraph 1(4) of this Schedule, or that paragraph as applied by paragraph 3(5).

means the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;

has the same meaning as in section 44A of the Pension Act 1975.

(except in the expression “sixty-five years”) means a period of twelve months beginning with 1st April.