Amendments to the Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations 2014
2.—(1) The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations 2014(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2, for the definition of “partnership pension account” substitute the following—
““partnership pension account”, in relation to a person in service in a scheme employment, means a stakeholder pension scheme or a personal pension scheme—
to which the person’s employer is paying contributions;
to which the person’s employer is not paying contributions because–
the person received benefits under section 2 (compulsory and redundancy category (1972 Section members)) of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme or section 3 (flexible category (1972 Section members)) of that Scheme on the basis that the person’s reckonable service within the meaning of those sections was enhanced; and
the period by which the person’s reckonable service was enhanced exceeds the period beginning with the day on which the person’s retirement under those sections began and ending with the day before the person was re-employed in the scheme employment; or
to which the person’s employer is not paying contributions because the person is not receiving earnings which are pensionable earnings for the purposes of the person’s pension scheme (other than because the person is on an unauthorised absence);”.
(3) After regulation 182 insert—
“Ill-health benefits for persons who have a partnership pension account
183. Schedule 3 (which makes provision for ill-health benefits for persons who have a partnership pension account) has effect.
Death benefits in respect of persons who have a partnership pension account
184. Schedule 4 (which makes provision for death benefits in respect of persons who have a partnership pension account) has effect.”.
(4) After Schedule 2 (transitional provisions) insert new Schedules 3 and 4 as set out in Schedules 1 and 2 to these Regulations.
S.I. 2014/1964 amended by S.I. 2015/372.