The Pensions Increase (Commissioners of Irish Lights) Regulations 2014

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1971 Act” means the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971(1);

“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(2);

“pensioner member” has the same meaning as in section 124 of the Pensions Act 1995(3);

“Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme” means the pension scheme of that name established under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972(4);

“relevant pension” means the rights to benefits accrued in the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme—

(a)

as a result of the relevant transfer; and

(b)

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—

(a)

immediately before the relevant transfer, had benefits accrued in the Commissioners of Irish Lights pension scheme; and

(b)

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(5);

“relevant type B person” means a person who—

(a)

immediately before the relevant transfer, had benefits accrued in the Commissioners of Irish Lights pension scheme; and

(b)

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.

(1)

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.

(2)

1995 c.26.

(3)

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).

(4)

1972 c.11.

(5)

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.