SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7 Miscellaneous Social Security Amendments
Section 21.
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Sch. 7 paras. 1–3, 6–8 repealed (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6)

Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60)
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Sch. 7 paras. 1–3, 6–8 repealed (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6)

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The following subsection shall be inserted after section 43(2) of that Act—

“(2A) For the purposes of this Act any period of an earner’s service in an employment is linked qualifying service in relation to a later period of service (whether in the same or another employment) if—
(a) under the rules of a scheme applying to him in the earlier period of service there was made a transfer of his accrued rights under that scheme to another scheme applying to him in the later period of service; and
(b) in consequence of that transfer, there are (or were) allowed to him transfer credits under the rules of that other scheme,
except that, for any service to be taken into account as linked qualifying service, it must be actual service and no regard shall be had to any scheme rule which provides for service to be treated for any purposes of benefit or otherwise as longer or shorter than it actually was.”

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In section 66(1) of that Act (interpretation)—
(a) in the definition of “linked qualifying service” for “38(4)” there shall be substituted “43(2A)”; and
(b) the following definition shall be substituted for the definition of “transfer credits”—

““transfer credits” means rights allowed to an earner under the rules of an occupational pension scheme by reference to a transfer to that scheme of his accrued rights from another scheme.”

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Sch. 7 paras. 1–3, 6–8 repealed (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6)

Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41)
9 In Schedule 8 to the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (social security adjudications)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 31 (transitional regulations) for the words “and this Schedule” there shall be substituted the words “ this Schedule and section 16 of the Health and Social Security Act 1984 ”; and
(b) in sub-paragraph (3), for the words from “and this Schedule”, in the first place where they occur, to the end of the sub-paragraph there shall be substituted the words “ this Schedule and section 16 of the Health and Social Security Act 1984 and before the expiry of the period of six months beginning with their commencement ”.
The text of Sch. 7 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991