Legislation – Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022
PART 1Public service pension schemes
CHAPTER 4General
Restriction of schemes from 31 March 2022
91Prohibition of new arrangements to pay voluntary contributions
(1)
No arrangements are to be entered into after 31 March 2022 under which voluntary contributions are payable by a member of a relevant scheme to the scheme.
(2)
In subsection (1) “relevant scheme” means—
(a)
a Chapter 1 legacy scheme (within the meaning of Chapter 1),
(b)
a judicial legacy salaried scheme (within the meaning of Chapter 2),
(c)
a local government legacy scheme (within the meaning of Chapter 3),
(d)
the Judicial Pensions Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/182),
(e)
the Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. (N.I.) 2015 No. 76), or
(f)
the pension scheme established for certain employees of the Secret Intelligence Service which came into operation on 1 January 1946 and was amended on 1 September 1957 and 1 July 1964.
(3)
Subsection (1)—
(a)
does not affect the continued operation after 31 March 2022 of any arrangements entered into on or before that date;
(b)
does not apply to arrangements entered into by virtue of section 25 or 60 (remedial arrangements to pay voluntary contributions).