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Social Security Act 1973
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51 Recognised pensionable employment.U.K.
(1), (2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(3)In this Act—
(a)“occupational pension scheme” means any scheme or arrangement which is comprised in one or more instruments or agreements and which has, or is capable of having, effect in relation to one or more descriptions or categories of employments so as to provide benefits, in the form of pensions or otherwise, payable on termination of service, or on death or retirement, to or in respect of earners with qualifying service in an employment of any such description or category; and
(b)“public service pension scheme” means an occupational pension scheme established by or under an enactment or the Royal prerogative or a Royal charter, being a scheme—
(i)all the particulars of which are set out in, or in a legislative instrument made under, an enactment, Royal warrant or charter, or
(ii)which cannot come into force, or be amended, without the scheme or amendment being approved by a Minister of the Crown or government department,
and includes [F2any occupational pension scheme established, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service, by or with the approval of another Minister of the Crown and] any occupational pension scheme prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State and the Minister for the Civil Service jointly as being a scheme which ought in their opinion to be treated as a public service pension scheme for the purposes of this Part of this Act.
(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(5)References . . . F3 in the following provisions of this Part of this Act to employers are to be treated, in relation to persons within the application of an occupational pension scheme and qualifying or prospectively qualifying for its benefits, as including references to persons who in relation to them and their employments are treated by regulations as being employers for the purposes of this Part of this Act.
(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(7). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4
(8), (9). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
[F5(10)Regulations may, for any purpose of this Part of this Act, prescribe the persons who are to be regarded as members or prospective members of an occupational pension scheme and as to the times at which, and the circumstances in which, a person is to be treated as becoming, or as ceasing to be, a member or prospective member.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 51(1),(2),(4),(6),(8),(9), 52(1)–(7)(9), 53–57, 58(3)–(5), 59(2)–(9), 60–62 repealed by Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), Sch. 5 and S.I. 1975/1503 (N.I. 15), Sch. 6
F2Words inserted by Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), s. 4(1) w.e.f. 23.5.80
F3Words repealed by Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), Sch. 5, w.e.f. 21.11.75.
F4S. 51(7) repealed (1.10.89) by Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Sch. 6, para. 1 and Sch. 9
F5S. 51(10) repealed (N.I.) by S.I. 1975/1503 (N.I. 15), art. 74(2), Sch. 6
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