Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2010
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Amendment of section 3 of Act of 2009. |
8.— Section 3 of the Act of 2009 is amended— | |
(a) in subsection (1)(a), by the substitution of “in receipt of a pension under a public service pension scheme” for “in receipt of a pension or has a preserved benefit in a public service pension scheme, and”, | ||
(b) in subsection (1)(b), by the substitution of the following for subparagraph (ii): | ||
“(ii) a later date specified by the Minister by order in accordance with subsection (3), | ||
or a person who was at some time before the date specified under subparagraph (ii) a public servant and has a preserved benefit in a public service pension scheme in respect of which the preserved pension age of the person falls on or before that date, and”, | ||
(c) in subsection (1), by the addition of the following paragraph: | ||
“(c) a person who is a spouse or child of a public servant or former public servant and who becomes entitled to payment of a public service pension as a spouse or child of that public servant or former public servant, as the case may be, under a public service pension scheme at any time after the date specified under paragraph (b)(ii) but only if that public servant or former public servant, as the case may be, was entitled before that date to payment of a public service pension under a public service pension scheme in respect of service as a public servant from which the entitlement of the spouse or child derives.”, and | ||
(d) by the addition of the following subsection: | ||
“(4) In this section— | ||
‘preserved benefit’ has the meaning it has in the Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 ; | ||
‘preserved pension age’, in relation to a preserved benefit in a public service pension scheme, means the age of the public servant or former public servant concerned at which the preserved benefit becomes payable to him or her under the scheme.”. |