Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 647

The State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Amendment Regulations 1988

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1988 No. 647

PENSIONS

The State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Amendment Regulations 1988

Whereas a draft of the following regulations was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 168(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975 ^[1], sections 44(7), and 44ZA(14) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 ^[2] and sections 5(15) and 16 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) of the Social Security Act 1986, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 6th April 1989.

Amendment of the State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Regulations 1987
    2.—(1)  The State Scheme Premiums (Actuarial Tables) Regulations 1987 ^[4] shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

    (2)  After paragraph (3) of regulation 6 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
"  (4)  In a case where the person in question is a man who is entitled to receive a guaranteed minimum pension in respect of his late wife's service in contracted-out employment and to which regulation 33D of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1984 ^[5] applies, the Secretary of State shall apply the actuarial tables in Schedule 5." .



    (3)  In regulation 7 the word "and" at the end of paragraph (b) shall be omitted and at the end of paragraph (c) for the full-stop there shall be substituted "; and".

    (4)  After paragraph (c) of regulation 7 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
"(d) in a case where the person in respect of whom the premium falls to be paid is a man who is entitled to receive a pension giving effect to his late wife's protected rights (not being a case to which either regulation 18(2A) of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1984 or regulation 3 of the Personal Pension Schemes (Personal Pension Protected Rights Premiums) Regulations 1987 ^[6] applies), the actuarial tables in Schedule 5." .



    (5)  In Schedule 5 for the second table there shall be substituted the table set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Michael Portillo

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Security

29th March 1988

[1] 1975 c. 14. See definition 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. back

[2] 1975 c. 60. Section 44ZA was inserted by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), Schedule 2, paragraph 7. back

[3] 1986 c. 50 back

[4] S.I. 1987/657 back

[5] S.I. 1984/380; the relevant amending instruments are S.1. 1987/1100 and 1103. back

[6] S.I. 1987/1111 back

Explanatory Note