Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 1888

PENSIONS

The Occupational Pension Schemes (Public Service Pension Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Made

23rd July 1993

Laid before Parliament

30th July 1993

Coming into force

1st September 1993

The Secretary of State for Social Security and the Treasury(1) in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 51(3)(b) and 96(1) to (3) of the Social Security Act 1973(2), section 168(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975(3) and sections 61B and 66(1) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975(4) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf being of the opinion that the occupational pension schemes referred to in the Occupational Pensions Schemes (Public Service Pensions Schemes) Regulations 1978(5) and in these Regulations ought to be treated as public service pension schemes for the purposes of Part II of the Social Security Act 1973 and of Parts III, IV and IVA of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 and after considering the report of the Occupational Pensions Board on the draft submitted to them, hereby jointly make the following Regulations-

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Occupational Pension Schemes (Public Service Pension Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations 1993, and shall come into force on 1st September 1993.

(2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Occupational Pensions Schemes (Public Service Pension Schemes) Regulations 1978.

Extension of the principal Regulations in relation to Part IVA of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975

2. In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (schemes to be treated as public service pension schemes) for the words "Parts III and IV of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975" there are substituted the words "Parts III, IV and IVA of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975".

Amendment of list of schemes treated as public service pension schemes

3. The Schedule to the principal Regulations (list of schemes treated as public service pension schemes) shall be amended by deleting the entry "Sino-British Trade Council Pension Scheme" and by adding the following occupational pension schemes:

"Latin American Trade Advisory Group Pension Scheme";
"China-Britain Trade Group Pension Scheme";
"Great Britain-China Centre Staff Pension Scheme";

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

William Hague

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

20th July 1993

Signed on behalf of Her Majesty's Treasury.

Irvine Patnick

Tim Wood

Two of the Lords' Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

23rd July 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Occupational Pension Schemes (Public Service Pension Schemes) Regulations 1978 (the principal Regulations). Regulation 2, by inserting a reference to Part IVA of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (the Pensions Ombudsman), extends the purposes for which the schemes listed in the Schedule to the principal Regulations are to be treated as public service pension schemes. Regulation 3 amends that list.

The Report of the Occupational Pensions Board on the draft of these Regulations which was referred to them, together with a statement by the Secretary of State on that Report, is contained in Command Paper No. 2289, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

These Regulations do not impose any costs on business.

(1)

See the Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) Order 1981 S.I. 1981/1670.

(2)

1973 c. 38. See definition of "prescribed" in section 99(1) and the explanation of "regulations" in section 99(3).

(3)

1975 c. 14. See definitions of "prescribe" and "regulations" in Schedule 20. Section 168(1) applies to certain powers to make regulations under the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 by virtue of section 66(2) of that Act. See the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), Schedule 3, paragraph 10.

(4)

1975 c. 60. Section 61B was inserted by paragraph 37 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6).

(5)

S.I. 1978/289 amended by S.I. 1979/1645 and 1980/288.