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PART GCHILDREN'S PENSIONS

General provisions relating to children’s pensions

Children over 17 in paid training

G10.—(1) If a child in respect of whom a children’s long-term pension is payable has attained the age of 17 years and is receiving remuneration in respect of full-time training for a trade, profession or vocation at an annual rate in excess of the indexed training rate, then—

(a)the annual rate of the pension is to be reduced by the amount of the excess, or

(b)if it results in a smaller reduction, the child is to be disregarded for the purposes of calculating the pension.

(2) In paragraph (1) “the indexed training rate” means the annual rate at which an official pension (within the meaning of the Pension (Increase) Act 1971(1)) would for the time being be payable if it had begun on 1st April 1994 and had then been payable at an annual rate of £1,450.

(1)

1971 c. 56; section 5(1) was amended by the Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), section 29(1), Schedule 6, paragraph 85.