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(1)For section 21(1) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (commutation of guaranteed minimum pensions) substitute—
“(1)A scheme may, in such circumstances and subject to such restrictions and conditions as may be prescribed, provide for the payment of a lump sum instead of a pension required to be provided by the scheme in accordance with section 13 or 17.”
(2)In section 17 of that Act (minimum pensions for widows and widowers), at the end insert—
“(8)Where—
(a)a lump sum is paid to an earner under provisions included in a scheme by virtue of section 21(1), and
(b)those provisions are of a prescribed description,
the earner shall be treated for the purposes of this section as having any guaranteed minimum under section 14 that he would have had but for that payment.”
(3)In section 28 of that Act (ways of giving effect to protected rights), in subsection (4) (provision of a lump sum)—
(a)after “provision of a lump sum” insert “ , subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed, ”,
(b)omit paragraphs (a) and (b), and
(c)at the end insert “; and
(e)such other conditions as may be prescribed are satisfied.”
(4)Omit subsections (4A) and (4B) of that section.
(5)In subsections (3) and (5) of that section, for “, (4) or (4A)” substitute “ or (4) ”.
(6)In subsection (8) of that section, in the definition of “the starting date” omit “, which must not be earlier than the member’s 60th birthday,”.
(7)In section 29(1) of that Act (how a pension may comply with “the pension requirements” for the purposes of section 28)—
(a)in paragraph (a), for the words from “date” to “or on” substitute “ date that is not later than the member’s 65th birthday, or on ”, and
(b)in paragraph (aa)(ii) omit the words from “and is not” to “75th birthday,”.
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I1S. 284 in force at 1.7.2005 for specified purposes and 6.4.2006 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2005/1720, art. 2(15), Sch. Pt. 2
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