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2006 No. 3374

PENSIONS

The Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 2006

  Made 14th December 2006 
  Laid before Parliament 18th December 2006 
  Coming into force 2nd February 2007 

The Minister for the Civil Service in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(5), 1(7) and 1(8)(a) and (c) of the Superannuation Act 1972[1] and now vested in him[2] makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 2nd February 2007, but shall have effect, as appropriate, from the dates specified in this Order.

    (2) In this Order—

Employments
     2. —(1) Section 1 of the Act shall apply to the following employments with effect from the dates specified below—

    (2) Accordingly, Schedule 1 to the Act is amended by inserting at the appropriate places, with effect from the relevant dates specified in article 2(1), in the list of "Other Bodies", the entries—

Offices
     3. —(1) Section 1 of the Act shall apply to the following offices with effect from the dates specified below—

    (2) Accordingly, Schedule 1 to the Act is amended by inserting at the appropriate places, with effect from the relevant dates specified in article 3(1), in the list of "Offices", the entries—

Removal from Schedule 1
     4. The following entries are removed from the list of "Other Bodies" in Schedule 1 to the Act—

Employment by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise
     5. —(1) Section 1 of the Act shall apply, with effect from the dates specified below, to employment by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (now Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs), as a result of the following recruitment exercises—

    (2) Accordingly, Schedule 1 to the Act is amended by inserting at the appropriate place, with effect from the relevant dates specified in article 5(1), in the list of "Other Bodies" the entry—

    (3) The entry in Schedule 1 to the Act inserted by article 5(2) of this Order is removed, with effect from 5th May 2006, from the list of "Other Bodies".

Amendment
     6. In article 2(2) of the Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 2005, for "NHS Confederation (Employers) Company Limited" substitute "The NHS Confederation (Employers) Company Limited", with effect from 1st October 2004.


Pat McFadden
for the Minister for the Civil Service

14th December 2006


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


     1. Section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 (the "Act") permits the Minister for the Civil Service to make schemes which make provision for pensions and other benefits in respect of civil servants and persons serving in an employment or office listed in Schedule 1 to the Act. The Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme, the Civil Service Additional Voluntary Contribution Scheme, the Civil Service Compensation Scheme and the Civil Service Injury Benefits Scheme are schemes which have been made under section 1 of the Act.

     2. This Order adds employment by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (United Kingdom Branch), the Trustees of the Independent Living (Extension) Fund and the Independent Living (1993) Fund, the NHS Business Services Authority, the Adjudicator to Her Majesty's Land Registry, the Quality Improvement Agency, The School Food Trust and the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.

     3. This Order also adds the offices of the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland and the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner to those listed in Schedule 1 to the Act.

     4. The addition of these employments and offices to Schedule 1 to the Act makes the persons serving in the employments or offices eligible to be members of the schemes made under section 1 of the Act, subject to the rules of those schemes.

     5. Employment by The Greater London Magistrates' Court Authority, the NHS Pensions Agency (Asianteth Pensiynau'r GIG), and the Wine Standards Board is removed from those listed in Schedule 1 to the Act.

     6. Article 5 has the effect of making persons employed by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (now Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) and recruited through certain specified recruitment exercises, eligible to be members of the schemes made under section 1 of the Act for a specified period of time.

     7. Article 6 of this Order amends a typographical error contained in the Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 2005) Order.

     8. The changes to Schedule 1 to the Act made by this Order have effect from dates that are before the date this Order is made. This is authorised by section 1(8)(a) of the Act.

Notes:

 [1] 1972 c.11.back

[2] See article 2(1)(c) of the Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1670) and article 3 of the Transfer of Functions (Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/269).back

[3] S.I. 1993/938, made under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973 (c.63).back


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Prepared 20 December 2006

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