The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993

Transfers from other pension schemes

P6.—(1) At the request of any person who—

(a) is a participating Member; or

(b) is an opted-out Member who applies to rejoin the principal scheme under regulation C6; or

(c) is not a Member of the House of Commons, but is a participating office holder; or

(d) is not a Member of the House of Commons, but is an opted-out office holder who applies to rejoin the principal scheme under regulation C7,

the Trustees shall receive any sums payable by way of transfer value in respect of him out of, or out of moneys held for the purposes of, any scheme or annuity to which regulation P1 applies, or under any enactment for the time being in force which authorises the transfer of pension rights.

(2) Where any sums are received by the Trustees under paragraph (1) above at the request of a person who is a participating Member at the time when the request is made—

(a) his aggregate period of reckonable service as a participating Member shall be treated as increased by the addition of such period as may be determined by the Trustees; and

(b) for the purposes of regulations N1, N2, N3 and N4, the sums so received by the Trustees, so far as in the opinion of the Trustees they represent his own contributory payments, shall be treated as if they were contributions paid by him, at the same times as those contributory payments were made, by deduction from his salary under regulation D1 or under section 3 of the 1972 Act, or under Part II of the Act of 1965, as the case may be.

(3) Where any sums are received by the Trustees under paragraph (1) above at the request of a person who is not a Member of the House of Commons at the time when the request is made—

(a) the calculation under regulation F4 of the annual amount of any pension shall be made in respect of that person as if—

(i) the number of years for which a contribution credit falls to be calculated under paragraph (4) of that regulation were increased by such number of additional years as may have been determined in relation to those sums by the Trustees; and

(ii) the contribution factor for each of those additional years were such amount as may have been so determined; and

(b) for the purposes of regulations N1, N2, N3 and N4 the sums so received by the Trustees, so far as in the opinion of the Trustees they represent his own contributory payments, shall be treated as if they had been contributions paid by him, at the same times as those contributory payments were made, by deduction from his salary under regulation D2 or under section 4 of the 1972 Act, as the case may be.

(4) Any period determined by the Trustees under paragraph (2)(a) or paragraph (3)(a) above shall be a period or number of years either certified by the Government Actuary as being appropriate in relation to the sums received by the Trustees at the request of the person in question or a period or number of years calculated, in accordance with tables prepared by the Government Actuary, as being appropriate in relation to those sums.