Legislation – The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023
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PART 1Introductory provisions
Interpretation
2.
(1)
In these Regulations—
“PSPJOA 2022” means the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022;
“alpha” means the pension scheme established by the 2014 Regulations;
“civil service scheme” means alpha or the PCSPS;
“deferred choice decision” has the meaning given in regulation 12(1);
“deferred choice decision-maker” means the person who may make a deferred choice decision under regulation 12(2);
“deferred choice member” means a member with remediable service who is not an immediate choice member;
“end of the section 10 election period”, in relation to a deferred choice member, means the end of the day determined in accordance with—
(a)
where the member is the deferred choice decision-maker, regulation 13(1)(b);
(b)
where a person other than the member is the deferred choice decision-maker, regulation 13(4)(b);
“immediate choice decision” has the meaning given in regulation 8(1);
“immediate choice decision-maker” means the person who may make an immediate choice decision under regulation 8(2);
“immediate choice member” means a member with remediable service who, immediately before 1st October 2023, was deceased or entitled to the present payment of a pension, other than an excluded pension, under a civil service scheme; and “excluded pension” means a pension the rate of which—
(a)
is not determined (by any extent) by reference to the member’s remediable service, and
(b)
is not affected by the coming into force of section 2(1) of PSPJOA 2022;
“opted-out service election” has the meaning given in regulation 6(1);
(a)
(b)
“PCSPS benefits” means benefits under the PCSPS;
“remedy member” means a deferred choice member or an immediate choice member;
“the scheme manager” means the Minister for the Civil Service;
“Section I” means Section I of the PCSPS;
“Section II” means Section II of the PCSPS;
“Section III” means Section III of the PCSPS;
“section 6 election” has the meaning given in regulation 8(1)(a);
“section 10 election” has the meaning given in regulation 12(1)(a).
(2)
For the purposes of these Regulations, a reference in PSPJOA 2022 to section 2(1) of that Act coming into force is to be understood as a reference to that section coming into force in relation to members of a civil service scheme.
(3)
A term used in these Regulations which—
(a)
is defined in, or for the purposes of, a provision in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of PSPJOA 2022, and
(b)
is not defined differently in these Regulations,
has the meaning given in, or for the purposes of, that provision.
(4)
A term used in these Regulations which—
(a)
is defined in the 2014 Regulations, Section I, Section II or Section III (a “relevant scheme”), and
(b)
is not defined differently in—
(i)
these Regulations, or
(ii)
in, or for the purposes of, a provision in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of PSPJOA 2022,
has, in relation to the relevant scheme, the meaning given in that scheme.
(5)
In these Regulations, a reference to a provision of the PSP Directions 2022 is a reference to that provision as amended from time to time.