Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987

Section 2.

SCHEDULE 1Provisions that may be Included in Regulations

1Provision as to the administration of the Fund, as to the management and application of the assets of the Fund and as to the number, qualification and proceedings of the trustees of the Fund.

2Provision authorising or requiring contributions and other sums to be paid into the Fund by or on behalf of persons in service to which section 2 of this Act applies, including provision for those contributions and sums to be paid by means of deductions from salary and, in the case of a person who does not draw a salary, provision for them to be paid out of money provided by Parliament.

3Provision as to the circumstances in which there is to be entitlement to a pension payable out of the Fund, as to the conditions of any such entitlement, as to the persons to or for the benefit of whom such a pension is to be payable, as to the calculation of the amount of any such pension and as to the payment or commutation of any such pension.

4Provision for the application of assets of the Fund in or towards the provision of pensions to be paid otherwise than out of the Fund and, in connection with any such provision, provision for the payment into the Fund out of money provided by Parliament of sums in addition to those paid into the Fund under section 3 of this Act.

5Provision for the payment and receipt of transfer values by the trustees of the Fund (including provision for the payment of such values into the Consolidated Fund), and provision for the transfer and receipt by those trustees, in lieu of transfer values, of funds or policies of insurance.

6Provision authorising service other than service to which section 2 of this Act applies to be taken into account, in addition to service to which that section does apply, for the purposes of any of the regulations.

7Provision as to the circumstances and manner—

(a)in which amounts equal to some or all of the contributions and other sums paid by or on behalf of a person into the Fund may be repaid or paid to him; and

(b)in which any such amounts are to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund in respect of any transfer values paid into that Fund,

and provision as to whether any repayment or payment made out of either Fund is to be made with or without interest.

8Provision which, in relation to such cases, circumstances or persons as may be specified in or determined under the regulations, authorises any sum due to be paid out of the Fund in respect of a person who has died to be paid without probate or other proof of title.

9Provision rendering void any assignment (or, in Scotland, assignation) of or charge on, or any agreement to assign or charge, any pension which is or may become payable out of the Fund; and, without prejudice to paragraph 13 below, provision modifying the effect in relation to any such pension of so much of any enactment or subordinate legislation (whether passed or made before or after the passing of this Act) as relates to bankruptcy or, in Scotland, to the sequestration of a debtor’s estate.

10Provision conferring functions under the regulations on such persons as may be specified in or determined under the regulations.

11Provision making the approval, satisfaction or opinion of persons on whom functions are conferred by or under the regulations material for the purposes of any provision of the regulations.

12Provision which, with or without modifications, applies in relation to a pension payable out of the Fund so much of any enactment or subordinate legislation (whether passed or made before or after the passing of this Act) as relates to any other pension, being a pension payable out of money provided by Parliament.

13Provision making such modifications of any enactment or subordinate legislation (whether passed or made before or after the passing of this Act) as the Leader of the House of Commons considers appropriate in consequence of any provision of the regulations.