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20Pensions bridging between retirement and state pension
(1)In Part 1 of Schedule 28 to FA 2004 (registered pension schemes: the pension rules), paragraph 2 (meaning of “scheme pension”) is amended in accordance with subsections (2) to (4).
(2)In sub-paragraph (4) (which specifies circumstances in which amount of scheme pension may go down and gives power to specify additional circumstances) omit paragraph (c) (reduction by reference to state retirement pensions for persons reaching pensionable age before 6 April 2016).
(3)Omit sub-paragraphs (4B), (5) and (5A) (interpretation of sub-paragraph (4)(c)).
(4)In sub-paragraph (8) (regulations under certain sub-paragraphs may make back-dated provision) omit “or (5)”.
(5)In consequence of the amendments made by subsections (2) and (3)—
(a)in FA 2006, in Schedule 23 omit paragraph 20(2) and (3), and
(b)in FA 2013, omit section 51(2).
(6)Regulations under paragraph 2(4)(h) of Schedule 28 to FA 2004 (power to prescribe permitted reductions of scheme pensions, and to do so with back-dated effect) may provide for the coming into force of the amendments made by subsections (2) to (5), and—
(a)those amendments have effect in accordance with regulations under paragraph 2(4)(h) of that Schedule, and
(b)paragraph 2(8) of that Schedule (back-dating) applies for the purposes of regulations bringing the amendments into force only so as to permit the amendments to be given effect in relation to times not earlier than 6 April 2016.
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