Legislation – The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023
PART 6Transfers
CHAPTER 4Treatment of rights secured by virtue of a remediable value
Pension benefits and lump sum benefits in relation to transferred in remediable rights
52.
(1)
This regulation applies in relation to any benefits that have been paid to or in respect of the transferred in remediable rights of an immediate choice member (“M”).
(2)
Where, at the operative time—
(a)
the aggregate of benefits that (after taking into account the effect, if any, of regulation 51(2)) have been paid under the PCSPS to any person (“the beneficiary”) in respect of M’s transferred in remediable rights, exceeds
(b)
the aggregate of the benefits to which (after taking into account the effect, if any, of regulation 50(3) or (5) in relation to the rights) the beneficiary is entitled under the scheme in respect of the rights,
the beneficiary must pay an amount equal to the difference to the scheme.
(3)
Where, at the operative time—
(a)
the amount mentioned in paragraph (2)(a), is less than
(b)
the amount mentioned in paragraph (2)(b),
the scheme manager must pay an amount equal to the difference to the beneficiary.
(4)
In this regulation, “the operative time” means—
(a)
if an immediate choice decision is made in relation to M’s remediable service, the time the decision is made;
(b)
otherwise, the end of the section 6 election period in relation to M.