F1SCHEDULE 3The Partnership Pension Account F2Ill-Health Benefits Arrangements

Annotations:

PART 1Preliminary

Meaning of “qualifying partnership service”6

In this Schedule, “qualifying partnership service” means the aggregate of the following periods—

a

any period beginning on or after 1st October 2002 falling within a person’s latest period of scheme employment during which the person has a partnership pension account (regardless of whether the person’s employer pays contributions);

b

any period which counts as qualifying service under the 2002 Section or the 2007 Section provided that the last day of such period was immediately before the person held a partnership pension account;

c

where a person (P) was in pensionable service under alpha immediately before P held a partnership pension account—

i

any period during which P was in pensionable service under alpha provided that the last day of such period was immediately before P held a partnership pension account; and

ii

any period which counts as qualifying service under the 2002 Section or the 2007 Section provided that the last day of such period was immediately before P’s period of qualifying partnership service within paragraph (i); and

d

in the case of a person who is transferred to scheme employment without the person’s consent and who has a partnership pension account immediately after that transfer, the whole of the period during which that person was an active member of an occupational pension scheme in the person’s employment immediately prior to the transfer.