The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993

Membership for Office Holders

C3.—(1) An office holder who—

(a) has not at any time held the office of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; and

(b) has not exercised an option under regulation C5; and

(c) is either

(i) a participating Member; or

(ii) not a Member of the House of Commons

shall be a participating office holder in the principal scheme in respect of any period of tenure of a qualifying office.

(2) In these Regulations “period of tenure of a qualifying office” means any continuous period beginning on or after 1st April 1972 for which a person is—

(a) the holder of one and the same qualifying office, or

(b) the holder successively of two or more qualifying offices in respect of which the same salary is payable.

(3) In these Regulations “qualifying office” means any of the following offices—

(a) the offices specified in Parts I to IV of Schedule 1 to the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (1), except the office of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury;

(b) the offices specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to that Act; and

(c) the offices of Chairman of Ways and Means, Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords and Deputy Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords

and “office holder” means the holder of a qualifying office.

(1)

1975 c. 27.