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(1)For purposes of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
“basic rate” means the annual rate of a pension apart from any increase under or by reference to this Act or any enactment repealed by this Act, or any corresponding increase made otherwise than under or by reference to this Act or an enactment repealed by it [F1but including any increase in the said annual rate in consequence of the M1Pensions (Increase) Act 1974 ;]
[F2“derivative pension” means a pension which—
is not payable in respect of the pensioner’s own services, and
is not attributable to the pensioner having become entitled to a pension credit;]
“
” means a pension computed by reference to a rate of emoluments (whether actual emoluments or not and whether final or average emoluments), or payable at alternative rates one of which is so computed, and includes a derivative pension computed by reference to the rate of an earnings-related pension;“flat rate” means a rate fixed otherwise than by reference to a rate of emoluments or to the rate of another pension, and “flat-rate pension” means a pension payable at a flat rate only, but includes a derivative pension computed by reference to the rate of a flat-rate pension;
“local authority” and “local government service” have the meanings given by Schedule 3 to this Act;
[F3“money purchase benefits” has the meaning given by [F4section 181(1) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993];]
“pension” has the meaning given by section 8 above, “official pension” that given by section 5(1), and “pension authority” that given by section 7(1), and the time when a pension “begins” is that stated in section 8(2);
[F5“pension credit” means a credit under section 29(1)(b) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 or under corresponding Northern Ireland legislation;
“principal pension” means a pension which—
is payable in respect of the pensioner’s own services, or
is attributable to the pensioner having become entitled to a pension credit;]
“qualifying condition” means one of the conditions laid down by section 3 above;
[F6“relevant injury pension” means—
(a)a pension paid to a person in respect of his absence from work by reason only of an injury sustained, or disease contracted, by him in the course of the employment by virtue of which his entitlement to the pension arises; or
(b)a pension paid to a person in respect of his having accepted less favourable terms and conditions of employment by reason of ill-health suffered by him in consequence of an injury so sustained or a disease so contracted;
but does not include any pension the rate of which is periodically recalculated by reference to the rate of the salary which the pensioner could reasonably be expected to have received had he not sustained the injury or contracted the disease in question;]
“substituted pension” means a pension granted in consideration of the surrender of the whole or part of another pension (“the original pension”);
[F2“widow’s pension” means a pension payable—
in respect of the services of the pensioner’s deceased husband, or
by virtue of the pensioner’s deceased husband having become entitled to a pension credit.]
(2)References in this Act to an enactment include an enactment in a local Act and a provisional order confirmed by Parliament.
(3)Any power to make regulations which is conferred by this Act is a power exercisable by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
Textual Amendments
F1Words inserted by Pensions (Increase) Act 1974 (c. 9), s. 1(3)
F2Definitions in s. 17(1) substituted (1.12.2000) by 1999 c. 30, s. 39(5)(a)(c); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. IV
F3Definition inserted by Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 7, SIF 101A:3), s. 7(3)
F4Words in s. 17(1) substituted (7.2.1994) by 1993 c. 48, s. 190, Sch. 8 para. 5 (with ss. 6(8), 164); S.I. 1994/86, art. 2.
F5Definitions in s. 17(1) inserted (1.12.2000) by 1999 c. 30, s. 39(5)(b); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. IV
F6Definition inserted by Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 7, SIF 101A:3), s. 1(6)
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