The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Enhancement of service in relation to ill-health pensions

5.  In the 1978 Act–

(a) in section 2(4)(1), for the words “subject to subsection (5) below” to the end, there shall be substituted:

• “be increased by a period equal to the period between his ceasing as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) above and the time when he would attain the age of sixty-five years.”;

(b) section 2(5) shall be deleted;

(c) in section 2(6), for the words “References in subsections (4) and (5) above to a person’s aggregate period of reckonable service as a Member are references”, there shall be substituted:

• “Reference in subsection (4) above to a person’s aggregate period of reckonable service as a Member is a reference”, and

(d) in section 2(7), for “subsections (1) to (5)” there shall be substituted “subsections (1) to (4)”, and in sub-paragraph (iii), the words “paragraph (a) and” shall be deleted.

(1)

Section 2(4) was amended by section 5(3)(a) and (6) of the Parliamentary Pensions etc. Act 1984 (c. 52).