(1)The Authority shall make provision for increases in pensions and capital sums to which this section applies broadly corresponding to each increase in official pensions under the M1Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 and section 59 of the M2Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (“an official pensions increase”).
(2)This section applies to a pension or capital sum at any time if—
(a)at that time it is a pension in payment, a deferred pension or capital sum or a pension or capital sum to which a person’s future entitlement is contingent on the death of another person, and
(b)the Board either made provision for an increase in it broadly corresponding to an official pensions increase or would have done so if it had been within paragraph (a) at a time when the Board made provision for increases broadly corresponding to an official pensions increase.
(3)But where it was the practice of the Board, when making increases broadly corresponding to an official pensions increase, in any circumstances—
(a)not to make provision for an increase, or
(b)to make provision for an increase of a reduced amount,
subsection (1) does not require the Authority to make in similar circumstances provision for an increase in excess of any for which the Board would have made provision.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 244: power to modify conferred (8.6.2005) by Railways Act 2005 (c. 14), ss. 1(8), 60(2); S.I. 2005/1444, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
Commencement Information
I1S. 244 wholly in force at 1.2.2001, see s. 275(1)(2) and S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to the transitional provision and saving in Sch. 2 Pt. II)
Marginal Citations