Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 555

Pensions

The Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 2014

Made

10th March 2014

Laid before Parliament

11th March 2014

Coming into force

1st April 2014

The Minister for the Civil Service, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(5) of the Superannuation Act 1972(1) and now vested in him(2) makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 2014, and shall come into force on 1st April 2014.

Employments

2.—(1) Section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 applies to employment by—

(a)the Commissioners of Irish Lights;

(b)the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses;

(c)the House of Commons Commission; and

(d)the Trinity House Lighthouse Service.

(2) Accordingly, Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972 is amended by—

(a)inserting, in the appropriate place in the list of “Royal Commissions and Other Commissions”, the entry “Employment by the House of Commons Commission”;

(b)inserting, in the appropriate places in the list of “Other Bodies”, the entries—

“Employment by the Commissioners of Irish Lights”;

“Employment by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses”; and

“Employment by the Trinity House Lighthouse Service”.

Francis Maude

for the Minister for the Civil Service

10th March 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 (“the Act”) permits the Minister for the Civil Service to make schemes which make provision for pension and other benefits in respect of civil servants and persons serving in an office or employment listed in Schedule 1 to the Act. The Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme, the Civil Service Additional Voluntary Contribution Scheme, the Civil Service Compensation Scheme and the Civil Service Injury Benefit Scheme are some of the schemes which have been made under section 1 of the Act.

This Order adds employment by the three general lighthouse authorities (the Trinity House Lighthouse Service, the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, and the Commissioners of Irish Lights), and employment by the House of Commons Commission, to the list of employments in Schedule 1 to the Act. This addition makes the persons employed by those bodies eligible to be members of schemes made under section 1 of the Act, subject to the rules of those schemes.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for this Order as no impact upon the costs of business or the voluntary sector is foreseen.

(1)

1972 c.11.

(2)

See article 2(1)(c) of the Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1670) and article 3 of the Transfer of Functions (Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/269).