The European Parliamentary (United Kingdom Representatives) Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Order 1994

means in respect of a person, his aggregate period of reckonable service excluding— (a) any increase in that period by virtue of article 11(4);

means a period of reckonable service purchased pursuant to article 27 and Schedule 7 including a part of a year expressed in days and any future added year;

has the meaning assigned to it by article 12(9);

has the same meaning as in that article.

means any participant who joined the scheme on or after 1st June 1989 or any other participant who has elected to become a Class A participant;

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

means any participant who joined the scheme before 17th March 1987;

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 7 of the Pensions Act 1993;

means any amount deducted from salary or deemed to have been paid under article 5 and any reference to the payment of a contribution shall be construed accordingly;

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

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 sections 14 to 16 and section 17(2) to (4) of the Pensions Act 1993;

has the same meaning as in section 8(2) of the Pensions Act 1993;

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

means a person making contributions under article 5 (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 scheme);

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

means a pension, expressed as an annual amount, under article 7;

has the meaning assigned to it by article 7(10)(a);

means actual service as a participant;

means a person entitled to receive a pension under the scheme;

means the sums payable by a participant whose application to purchase added years otherwise than by a single payment has been accepted by the Managers;

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;

has the meaning assigned to it by article 6;

(subject to the provisions of Schedule 5) means any child of the deceased, or of any wife or husband of the deceased, who— and “the provision as to cohabitation” means paragraph (5) of article 12 or that paragraph as applied by article 13(7).

means the relevant date for the determination under any provision of this Order of the pension of a person;

has the meaning assigned to it by article 7(10)(b);

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.

means service as a participant, 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 participant to whom section 1(2)(b) of the 1979 Act does not apply.

has the meaning assigned to it by section 55 of the Pensions Act 1993;

means a year beginning on the 6th April in a year and ending on the following 5th April.

means the European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979;

means the European Parliament (United Kingdom Representatives) Pensions Order 1980.

means the Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993;

means the person on whose death a children’s pension is or may be payable under article 14 and “child” has the same meaning as in that article.

means the period beginning with the opening of the first session of the European Parliament following a general election of Representatives and ending on the day before the opening of the first session of the European Parliament following the next such general election;

has the meaning assigned to it by article 3;

means the time when the deceased in fact died.

means, in respect of a pension under article 7 of a person who is or has been a participant, the relevant terminal salary under article 7(10)(b);

means the Pension Schemes Act 1993;

means paragraph (5) of article 12 or that paragraph as applied by article 13(7).

means the pension scheme from time to time in force made for United Kingdom Representatives to the European Parliament under section 4 of the 1979 Act;

means the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;