Public Service Pensions Bill Notice of Amendments tabled on 21 January 2014 for Further Consideration Stage

New Clause

After clause 29 insert -

‘Police pensions

29A.—(1) Regulations C9 and C9A of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pension Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 (S.R. 1998 No. 374), as substituted by Schedule 1 to the Police Service of Northern Ireland Pensions (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, (S.R.2006 No. 152) (widow’s, etc. pension or gratuity to terminate on re-marriage or other event) shall cease to have effect as from the reinstatement date.

(2) Where any person’s entitlement to receive payment on account of a pension or a gratuity under the Regulations of 1988 was terminated by virtue of regulation C9 or C9A, the pension or gratuity shall be reinstated and become payable as from the reinstatement date.

(3) Nothing in this section authorises or requires any payment on account of a pension in respect of any period before the reinstatement date.

(4) For the purposes of this section the reinstatement date is 1 July 2014.’

Mr Jim Allister

Clause 36, Page 21, Line 13

At end insert -‘( ) section 29A;’

Mr Jim Allister

Clause 10, Page 6

Leave out lines 15 and 16 and insert -‘specified by the scheme regulations for the scheme; and such regulations may specify any age not exceeding 68, but not less than 65’