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Consequential amendments of Act of 2010.
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6.— (1) The definition of “aggregation of public service pensions” (inserted by the Act of 2012) in section 1 of the Act of 2010 is amended by inserting “or subsection (5) of section 2A” after “subsection (1A) of section 2” and substituting “subsection (1) of section 2 or subsection (3) of section 2A, as the case may be,” for “subsection (1) of that section”.
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(2) Section 2 of the Act of 2010 is amended by substituting the following subsection for subsection (1A):
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“(1A) If two or more public service pensions, the annual amount of which, taken together, exceeds €32,500, are payable to a pensioner, all such pensions shall be aggregated for the purposes of applying subsection (1) in relation to the pensioner.”.
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(3) The following section is substituted for section 3 of the Act of 2010:
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“3.— Nothing in section 2 or 2A shall affect the calculation of any public service pension entitlement (including an entitlement to a lump sum and an entitlement to periodic payments of pension or other benefits) of a person who—
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(a) in the case of section 2, is a pensioner or becomes a pensioner on or at any time before the relevant date or, in the case of a pensioner falling under paragraph (c) of the definition of “pensioner” in section 1, at any time after that date; and
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(b) in the case of section 2A, falls within the definition of ‘relevant (post 29 February 2012) pensioner’ in that section.”.
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(4) The following sections of the Act of 2010:
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(a) section 4 (as amended by the Act of 2012);
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(b) section 5 (as amended by the Act of 2012);
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(c) section 6;
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(d) section 11; and
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(e) section 12 (as amended by the Act of 2012),
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are amended by inserting “or 2A” after “section 2” in each place where it occurs.
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