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Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 373

The Judicial Pensions (Requisite Benefits) Order 1987

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1987 No. 373

PENSIONS

The Judicial Pensions (Requisite Benefits) Order 1987

Made27th February 1987
Laid before Parliament11th March 1987
Coming into Force1st April 1987

    The Lord Chancellor (in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland) and the Secretary of State for Scotland (in relation to Scotland), in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 65 of the Social Security Act 1973[1] as appropriate authorities designated for that purpose by the Treasury[2] in accordance with the said provisions, hereby make the following Order:—


INTRODUCTORY
    Citation and commencement
        1.    This Order may be cited as the Judicial Pensions (Requisite Benefits) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.
    Interpretation
        2.    In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—

    "the Act" means the Social Security Pensions Act 1975[3];

    "the Act of 1973" means the Social Security Act 1973;

    "final salary" has the meaning given by Article 10;

    "normal pension age", in relation to a member of an occupational pension scheme, means the earliest age at which that member can become entitled to receive a pension under the scheme, apart from any special provision as to early retirement on grounds of ill-health or otherwise;

    "office-holder" means a person who is or has been the holder of any scheduled office;

    "pensionable age" means the age of 65 for a man and 60 for a woman;

    "relevant enactment" means an enactment by virtue of which an office-holder might be granted a pension in respect of any relevant service and, in the case of a person who has held more than one office, includes any enactment relating to the payment of superannuation benefits to or in respect of such a person;

    "relevant service" has the meaning given by Article 5(2) and (3);

    "scheduled office" means an office listed in Schedule 1;

    "scheme" means, in relation to any office-holder, the public service pension scheme established by a relevant enactment;
    other expressions used in the Act or in the Social Security Act 1975[4] have the same meanings in this Order as in the relevant Act.


Notes:

[1] 1973 c. 38.

[2] Substituted for the Minister for the Civil Service by S.I. 1981/1670.

[3] 1975 c. 60.

[4] 1975 c. 14.

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