The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2022

This Statutory Instrument has been printed in substitution of the S.I. of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2022 No. 330

Public Service Pensions

The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Made

17th March 2022

Laid before Parliament

18th March 2022

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)

The Minister for the Civil Service makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and (2)(a), 2, 3 and 18(5) of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013(1) (“the 2013 Act”).

In accordance with section 3(5) of the 2013 Act, these Regulations are made with the consent of the Treasury.

In accordance with section 21(1)(2) of the 2013 Act, the Minister for the Civil Service has consulted the representatives of such persons as appear to the Minister to be likely to be affected by these Regulations.

The retrospective provisions contained in these Regulations do not appear to the Minister to have significant adverse effects in relation to the pension payable to or in respect of members of the scheme established by the Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations 2014(3), nor in any other way in relation to members of that scheme. Accordingly, the procedures set out in section 23 of the 2013 Act are not applicable in respect of these Regulations.

(1)

2013 c. 25. Section 3 was amended by section 94(2) to (6) of the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7) (“the 2022 Act”). Section 18(5) is repealed from 1 April 2022 by section 88(2)(c) of the 2022 Act, subject to the savings and transitional provision contained in section 89 of that Act.

(2)

Section 21 has been amended by section 94(8) of the 2022 Act.

(3)

S.I. 2014/1964 as amended by S.I. 2015/372 and 602, 2018/537, 2019/520, 2020/224 and 2021/240.