Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017
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Relevant benefit | ||
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30. (1) In this Part, “relevant benefit” means a gratuity or annual payment payable to a public servant in accordance with a statutory instrument or circular or with an undertaking given by a Minister of the Government, if the gratuity or annual payment— | ||
(a) is not pensionable pay, and | ||
(b) is payable on the public servant’s— | ||
(i) attaining the age at which he or she is required to retire, or | ||
(ii) resigning from (or otherwise ceasing to hold) his or her position before attaining the age at which he or she is required to retire. | ||
(2) A reference in this Part to— | ||
(a) a member of a public service pension scheme, or | ||
(b) a member of a standard accrual pension scheme, | ||
shall be deemed to include a reference to a public servant who, on either of the future occasions referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of that expression in subsection (1), shall be entitled to receive a relevant benefit. | ||
(3) A relevant benefit shall be deemed to be a pension entitlement for the purposes of section 29 (2)(a). |