The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/1887
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 5th August 2002, but regulation 3 shall have effectfrom 1st April 2001.

(2) In these Regulations, the “ Principal Regulations ” means the Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993 .

Section 2 Contributions

For paragraph (3E) of regulation D2 in the Principal Regulations, there shall be substituted:—

(3E) Where the option referred to in paragraph (3) is exercised in accordance with sub-paragraph (b) or (c) of paragraph (3B), the effective date of the option is the date on which he was appointed as an office holder referred to in sub-paragraph (b) or (c); and there shall be repaid to the participating office holder the difference between any contributions deducted from his salary at the rate of 9 per cent since the effective date and the contributions which would have been deducted from it at the rate of 6 per cent.

Section 3 Pensions for children

For sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 7 in Schedule 5 to the Principal Regulations there shall be substituted—

(2) Notwithstanding sub-paragraph (1) above, the Trustees may direct that the adopted child shall be treated as a relevant child if they are satisfied that the deceased and his or her husband or wife before the termination of their marriage already formed the intention of adopting the child and the child was at the time of the deceased’s death wholly or mainly dependant on the deceased.