Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21)

Part V U.K. Miscellaneous and general

Pensions E+W

135 Pensions: interpretation. E+W

(1) This section has effect for the purposes of section 134.

(2) Rights in relation to a person include—

(a) all forms of right to or eligibility for the present or future payment of a pension to or in respect of him;

(b) a right of allocation in respect of the present or future payment of a pension.

(3) A deferred pensioner is a person who has rights under the occupational scheme but is neither a pensioner under it nor a person to whom rights are accruing under it by virtue of his employment.

(4) “Salary related occupational pension scheme” has the meaning given by [F1 section 100D] of the M1 Pension Schemes Act 1993.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 135(4) substituted (6.4.2015) by Pension Schemes Act 2015 (c. 8), s. 89(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 33 (with s. 87)

Marginal Citations

M1 1993 c. 48.