Pensions (Amendment) Bill [H.L.]

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Pensions (Amendment) Bill [H.L.]

This is the text of the Pensions (Amendment) Bill [H.L.], as passed by the House of Lords and introduced on 30 July 1998

Pensions (Amendment) Bill [H.L.]

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES

Clause

1. Annual report on service pensions, war pensions and war widows' pensions.

2. Short title.

A
B I L L
INTITULED
An Act to require the Secretary of State to report annually on service pensions, war pensions and war widows' pensions.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Annual report on service pensions, war pensions and war widows' pensions.     1. After section 169 of the Pensions Act 1995 there shall be inserted-

"Annual report on service pensions, war pensions and war widows' pensions.     169A. - (1) The Secretary of State shall lay before Parliament on or before the last day of April 1999 and annually thereafter a report for the previous financial year on service pensions, war pensions and war widows' pensions, setting out in particular-

(a) the numbers of those in receipt of such pensions;

(b) an assessment of whether the payments made during the year in respect of those pensions have been sufficient to prevent their recipients suffering any unnecessary hardship; and

(c) what plans, if any, he has to improve the well-being of those recipients, whether by means of changes to the level of payments made in respect of those pensions or otherwise.

    (2) In preparing the report referred to in subsection (1), the Secretary of State shall-

(a) consider any representations made to him by individual recipients of the pensions referred to in that subsection or organisations representing their interests; and

(b) consult such other persons or organisations as appear to him to be appropriate."

Short title.     2. This Act may be cited as the Pensions (Amendment) Act 1998.

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Prepared 31 July 1998