Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 429
The State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Amendment Regulations 1991
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1991 No. 429
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The State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Amendment Regulations 1991
| Coming into force | 2nd April 1991 |
Whereas a draft of the following Regulations was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:
And whereas it appears to the Secretary of State for Social Security that it is expedient by reason of urgency for the following Regulations to come into force on 2nd April 1991:
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 168(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975[1], sections 44(7), 44ZA(14), 44A(3) and 45(4) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975[2] and sections 5(15), 16(1) and 84(1) of the Social Security Act 1986[3], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with the Government Actuary as required by section 16(1)(a) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 2nd April 1991.
(2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Regulations 1987[4].
Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations
2. In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (interpretation)— (a) for the definition of "25-year gross redemption yield" there shall be substituted the following definition—""20-year gross redemption yield" means the gross redemption yield applicable to 20-year British Government Stocks with high coupons compiled by the Financial Times, the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries;";
(b) for the definition of "25-year index number" there shall be substituted the following definition—""20-year index number" means the number shown in the appropriate column in the table in Schedule 7 opposite the range of yields which includes the 20-year gross redemption yield;".
Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations
3. In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (prescribed classes of investment), for the words "25-year gross redemption yield" there shall be substituted the words "20-year gross redemption yield".
Amendment of regulation 10 of the principal Regulations
4. In regulation 10 of the principal Regulations (market level indicators)— (a) in paragraph (2)(a)(ii) for the words "the 25-year index number" there shall be substituted the words "the 20-year index number".
(b) in paragraph (3) for the words "25-year index numbers" there shall be substituted the words "20-year index numbers".
Substitution of a new Schedule for Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations
5. For Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations (table for deriving 25-year index number from 25-year gross redemption yield) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security
Henley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security
4th March 1991
Notes:[1] 1975 c. 14.Seedefinition of "regulations" in Schedule 20. Section 168(1) applies by virtue of section 66(2) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), to the exercise of certain powers conferred by that Act.
[2] 1975 c. 60. Section 44ZA was inserted by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 6 and Schedule 2, paragraph 7. Section 44A was inserted by the Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53), section 2 and Schedule 1, paragraph 1.
[3] 1986 c. 50.S33definitions of "prescribed" and "regulations" in section 84(1).
[4] S.I. 1987/657.
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