Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL]

Commons Amendments

Motion on Amendments 1 to 47

Moved by

That this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 1 to 47.

1: Clause 1, page 2, line 3, leave out leave out subsection (4) and insert— “(4) The second condition is that the service in question is— (a) pensionable service under a Chapter 1 legacy scheme, (b) pensionable service under a Chapter 1 new scheme that would have been pensionable service under a Chapter 1 legacy scheme but for the person’s failure to meet a condition relating to the person’s attainment of normal pension age, or another specified age, by a specified date, or (c) excess teacher service. The second condition is met if all of the service in question falls within paragraphs (a) to (c) (even if it does not all fall within only one of those paragraphs).”

2: Clause 1, page 2, line 37, at end insert “, or (c) is, as a result of a local government contracting-out transfer, pensionable service under a pension scheme that offers pension arrangements that are broadly comparable with those offered to the person before the transfer.”

3: Clause 1, page 3, line 3, after “scheme” insert “or excess teacher service”

4: Clause 4, page 5, line 4, at end insert— “(3A) In a case in which any of the person’s remediable service in the employment or office in question is excess teacher service, “the relevant Chapter 1 legacy scheme”, in relation to so much of the person’s remediable service as is excess teacher service, means the local government new scheme mentioned in section 98(2).”

5: Clause 6, page 7, line 10, leave out “in relation to the scheme”

6: Clause 10, page 9, line 19, leave out “in relation to the scheme”

7: Clause 14, page 11, line 21, leave out “in relation to the scheme”

8: Clause 14, page 12, line 13, leave out “in relation to the Chapter 1 legacy scheme”

9: Clause 15, page 12, line 27, leave out “in relation to the scheme”

10: Clause 15, page 13, line 1, leave out “in relation to the Chapter 1 legacy scheme”

11: Clause 16, page 13, line 37, leave out “in relation to the scheme”

12: Clause 16, page 13, line 42, leave out “in relation to the scheme”

13: Clause 16, page 14, line 1, leave out “in relation to the scheme”

14: Clause 17, page 14, line 37, leave out “in relation to the scheme”

15: Clause 22, page 19, line 20, at end insert— “(da) provision about the benefits payable in respect of a child of a deceased member where— the member has remediable service in an employment or office, and the child is not living in the same household as an adult survivor of the member;”