The Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Additional Rights of Appeal) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

• Citation: S.I. 2006/2893
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Additional Rights of Appeal) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made or on 26th July 2006, whichever is the later.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Additional Rights of Appeal) Regulations 2001 and, except where the context otherwise requires, a reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule, is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in the principal Regulations which bears that number.

Section 2 Amendments

The amendments to the principal Regulations set out in the Schedule to these Regulations shall have effect.

Section 1 Amendment to the principal Regulations – regulation 2

In regulation 2, after the definition of “the Service Pensions Order”, there shall be inserted—

“the 2006 Service Pensions Order ” means the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006;

Section 2 Amendment to the principal Regulations – regulation 3

After regulation 3, there shall be inserted, as regulation 3A—

New appeal rights: the 2006 Service Pensions Order

(3A)

(1) Each decision—

(a) which is made in exercise of any provision of the 2006 Service Pensions Order listed in Schedule 1A; and

(b) which—

(i) refuses or discontinues an award;

(ii) establishes or varies the amount of an award; or

(iii) establishes or varies the date from which an award has effect,

shall be a specified decision.

(2) Any decision as to the amount to be deducted from an award by virtue of any of the following provisions of the 2006 Service Pensions Order—

(a) article 50 (payment of public claims out of pensions);

(b) article 52 (adjustment of awards in respect of other compensation); or

(c) article 56 (abatement of awards in respect of social security benefits),

shall be a specified decision.

Section 3 Amendment to the principal Regulations – new Schedule 1A

After Schedule 1, there shall be inserted, as Schedule 1A, the following new Schedule—

The 2006 Service Pensions Order: List of Provisions