The Armed Forces Pension Scheme Order 2005

[F1 Purchase of additional reckonable service in respect of period on loan U.K.

40.— (1) This paragraph applies where M has exercised both an option under rule C.6 (purchase of added years for members seconded to NATO or the UN etc) of Schedule 1 to this instrument and an option to preserve an entitlement to earned pension under regulation 97 of the AFP Regulations 2014 (members seconded to NATO or the UN etc) and—

(a) both options were exercised on or before 30th September 2023,

(b) the lump sum payable under C..6 is paid by M to the Scheme, and

(c) any contribution under rule C6(4), calculated as at the date the option was exercised, is paid.

(2) Any entitlement to earned pension benefits in relation to M’s remediable service preserved by the exercise of the option under regulation 97 of the AFP Regulations 2014 is extinguished, and that period of remediable service is treated as additional reckonable service under rule C.6 of Schedule 1.

(3) No liability for an additional contribution from the member or the Secretary of State arises as a result of the coming into force of section 2(1) of the 2022 Act.

(4) Additional reckonable service under rule C.6 (whether or not by virtue of this Schedule) is treated as remediable service within the meaning of section 1 of PSPJOA 2022 (and Chapter 1 of Part 1 of that Act, together with the provisions of this Schedule, apply accordingly).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 inserted (1.10.2023) by The Armed Forces Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/998), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2