The Transport Act 2000 (Civil Aviation Authority Pension Scheme) Order 2001

47. CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO TEST PILOTS

47.  Subject always to Appendices 4 and 5, the following modifications to these CAA Rules shall apply in relation to a Test Pilot and membership of and benefits from the CAA Section while in Pensionable Service as a Test Pilot.

(a) Rule 21.1 is modified so that Test Pilots are eligible to join the CAA Section only if they are aged not less than 25 years but are aged less than 50 years.

(b) Normal Pension Date in relation to a Member’s Pensionable Service as a Test Pilot shall be the 55th anniversary of his birth.

(c) (i) The Pensionable Service of a Member who is a Test Pilot immediately before Normal Pension Date and who ceases to be a Current Member of the CAA Section at Normal Pension Date shall include an additional period of five years.

(ii) The Pensionable Service of a Test Pilot who ceases to be a Current Member of the CAA Section before his Normal Pension Date shall include an additional period equal to such proportion of five years as his Service as a Test Pilot bears to the total Service he could have completed as a Test Pilot if he had remained a Current Member as a Test Pilot until his Normal Pension Date.

(iii) The Pensionable Service of a Test Pilot who ceases to be a Test Pilot before Normal Pension Date while remaining a Current Member shall include an additional amount calculated, with the necessary changes in point of detail, as described in paragraph (ii) above.

(iv) Any of a Member’s Pensionable Service as a Test Pilot shall for the purposes of the CAA Section be treated separately from any pensionable Service of that Member other than as a Test Pilot and references in this Rule to a Test Pilot’s Pensionable Service shall, except where otherwise required by the context and notwithstanding proviso (i) to Rule 32.6(a), be taken to refer solely to Pensionable Service while in Service as a Test Pilot (with the appropriate addition as described above).

For the avoidance of doubt it is stated that in the case of a Member who ceased to be a Test Pilot while remaining in Service the benefits from the CAA Section in respect of his Pensionable Service as a Test Pilot shall be calculated as if he had left Service (or, if his pension in respect of that Pensionable Service has commenced to be payable, as if he had retired) notwithstanding that the Member remains a Current Member in respect of Pensionable Service after he ceased to be a Test Pilot.

(d) Rule 27 shall be modified so that any pension from the CAA Section relating to the Pensionable Service of a Test Pilot shall commence to be paid no later than his Normal Pension Date under paragraph (b) above.