Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Act 2011

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Amendment of section 3 of Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009.

7.— Section 3 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) in paragraph (b), by the substitution of the following for subparagraph (ii) and the provisions of that paragraph after subparagraph (ii):

“(ii) a later date specified by the Minister by order in accordance with subsection (3),

and who, on ceasing to be a public servant, is entitled to payment of a pension under a public service pension scheme in respect of his or her service as a public servant 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”,

and

(ii) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (c):

“(c) a person who becomes entitled to payment of a public service pension as a spouse, civil partner or child of a former public servant to whom paragraph (a) or (b) applied.”,

and

(b) in subsection (4), by the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘civil partner’ has the meaning it has in the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 ;”.