Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008

PART 3

MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ACTS

Amendments to Pensions Act 1990.

24.— The Pensions Act 1990 is amended—

(a) in section 43(1) (as amended by section 37 of and Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007 ) by—

(i) inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (ba):

“(bb) in the case of a relevant scheme which commenced after 22 September 2005, not later than 3 years after the commencement of the scheme, and”,

(ii) in paragraph (d) (as amended by section 29 of the Act of 2008), by substituting “the exclusion ceases to apply, and” for “the exclusion ceases to apply,”, and

(iii) by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (d):

“(e) notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b), in the case of each of the following relevant schemes:

(i) the Bord Na Móna (Members) Superannuation Scheme 1959;

(ii) the Dublin Port and Docks Board Unestablished Employees’ Superannuation Scheme 1990;

(iii) the Dublin Port and Docks Board Officers’ Superannuation Scheme 1961;

(iv) the Dublin Port and Docks Board Established Grade A Employees’ Superannuation Scheme;

(v) the Foynes Port Company Pension Scheme;

(vi) the Shannon Estuary Port Company Superannuation Plan (Limerick Harbour Commissioners Officers’ Superannuation Scheme 1962);

(vii) the Superannuation Scheme for Employees of the Pilotage Authority of the Dublin Pilotage District 1994;

(viii) the Port of Waterford Company Pension and Death Benefits Plan;

not later than 1 January 2009,”,

and

(b) in section 49(3)(b) (as amended by section 37 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007 ), by substituting “section 43(1)(d) or 43(1)(e), where” for “section 43(1)(d)”.