Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations–
“the 1972 Act” means the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972(1);
“the 1978 Act” means the Parliamentary Pensions Act 1978(2);
“the 1987 Act” means the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987(3);
“the 1991 Act” means the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991(4).
(2) Expressions used in these Regulations have the meaning which they bear in the 1987 Act and in the existing enactments as defined in paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the 1987 Act.
1972 c. 48. Part I of this Act (sections 1–25) was repealed, with savings, by the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987 (c. 45). The enactments in that Part (other than sections 1(1) to (4) and (7), 5, 23 and 24(4)), have effect as if they were contained in regulations made in accordance with section 2 of the 1987 Act, and they may be amended as such.
1978 c. 56. This Act was repealed, with savings, by the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987 (c. 45), but sections 2–5, 6(2), 7, 11, 12(8) and 18(2) and (3) have effect as if they were contained in regulations made in accordance with section 2 of the 1987 Act, and they may be amended as such.