Amendments proposed to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill - continued	House of Commons
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Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

53

Schedule     7,     page     97,     line     15,     column     3,     at end insert—

    'Section 44(3).'.

   

Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

54

Schedule     7,     page     97,     line     21,     column     3,     at end insert—

    'In Schedule 1, paragraph 13, and in paragraph 16, sub-paragraph (1)(d) and (e), sub-paragraphs (2) to (9), and in sub-paragraph (10) the words ", or should be cancelled".'

   

Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

55

Schedule     7,     page     97,     line     22,     column     3,     leave out from beginning to end of line 23 and insert 'Schedule 4C.'

   

Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

288

Schedule     7,     page     98,     line     6,     column     3,     after '(4),' insert—

'the words "(or further arrangements)" in paragraph (a), and'.

Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

289

Schedule     7,     page     98,     line     25,     at end insert—

'( ) INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN TO THE AUTHORITY

Chapter	Short title	Extent of repeal
1993 c. 48.	The Pension Schemes Act 1993.	In section 178(a), the words "sections 22 to 26 of the Pensions Act 1995".
1995 c. 26.	The Pensions Act 1995.	In Schedule 3, paragraph 43.'.

   

Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

290

Schedule     7,     page     99,     line     4,     at end insert—

'(4A) CONTRIBUTIONS EQUIVALENT PREMIUMS

Chapter	Short title	Extent of repeal
1995 c. 26.	The Pensions Act 1995.	In Schedule 5, paragraph 57(a)(ii).
S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22).	The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.	In Schedule 3, paragraph 49(a)(ii).'.

   

Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

291

Schedule     7,     page     100,     leave out lines 5 to 7.

   

Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

292

Schedule     7,     page     101,     line     17,     column     3,     at end insert—

'In Schedule 2, paragraph 54.'.

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Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Andrew George

78

Clause     65,     page     67,     line     5,     leave out 'section 23' and insert 'sections 18 and 23'.

   

Mr Jeff Rooker

315

*Clause     65,     page     67,     line     6,     after 'Part II' insert 'and section (Sharing of state scheme rights)'.

   

Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Andrew George

79

Clause     65,     page     67,     line     17,     at end insert—

    '(2A) The provisions of section 18 of this Act—

(a) shall not come into effect until 1st October 2006 at the earliest; and

(b) may only be brought into effect upon the Secretary of State having laid a report before Parliament setting out the reasons why the introduction of section 18 is necessary.'.

   

Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Andrew George

80

Clause     65,     page     67,     line     18,     leave out 'subsection (2)' and insert 'subsections (2) or (2A)'.

   

Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

36

Clause     65,     page     67,     line     25,     after 'of' insert 'Part I (other than section 23) and'.

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Mr Jeff Rooker

320

*Clause     66,     page     68,     line     3,     after '60' insert 'and section (Third party providers of benefits in kind: Northern Ireland)'.

   

Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

285

Clause     66,     page     68,     line     11,     after '(1)' insert ', (4A)'.

   

Mr Jeff Rooker
Angela Eagle
Mr Kevin Hughes
Mr Richard Burden

286

Clause     66,     page     68,     line     13,     leave out 'and' and at end insert—

    '( ) paragraph 49(a)(ii) of Schedule 3 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995; and'.

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REMAINING NEW CLAUSES

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

   

Mr Andrew Mackinlay
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Andrew George
Mrs Jacqui Lait
Mr Eric Pickles
Mr Edward Leigh

NC4

To move the following Clause:—

    '.—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 2001 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.'.

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Notification

   

Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Andrew George

NC14

To move the following Clause:—

    '.—The Secretary of State shall in regulations make provision for the notification of additional pension contributors of any changes to the additional pension that will materially affect their entitlement.'.

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Backdating of additional pension contributions

   

Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Andrew George

NC17

To move the following Clause:—

    'The Secretary of State shall in regulations make provision for a scheme to back-date additional pension contributions to qualifying carers who would also have qualified under section 28 in any of the last 10 years.'.

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Long term solvency of trust-based stakeholder schemes

   

Mrs Jacqui Lait
Mr Eric Pickles
Mr Edward Leigh
Mr Laurence Robertson
Miss Julie Kirkbride
Mr Desmond Swayne

NC18

To move the following Clause:—

    'Trust-based stakeholder schemes shall be regulated and monitored as to their long term solvency.'.

Pensions and annuities

   

Mrs Jacqui Lait
Mr Eric Pickles
Mr Edward Leigh
Mr Laurence Robertson
Miss Julie Kirkbride
Mr Desmond Swayne

NC19

*To move the following Clause:—

    '.—The Secretary of State may, by regulations, introduce alternative arrangements to those contained in sections 28, 28A, 28B and 29 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 to the extent that he deems appropriate.'.

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Alternatives to annuities

   

Mrs Jacqui Lait
Mr Eric Pickles
Mr Edward Leigh
Mr Laurence Robertson
Miss Julie Kirkbride
Mr Desmond Swayne

NC20

*To move the following Clause:—

    '.—The Secretary of State may, by regulations, approve alternative schemes of payment of pensions to those people currently committed to annuities purchased on retirement.'.

War pensions for widows: entitlement

   

Mrs Jacqui Lait
Mr Eric Pickles
Mr Edward Leigh
Mr Laurence Robertson
Miss Julie Kirkbride
Mr Desmond Swayne

NC21

*To move the following Clause:—

    '(.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), a widow in receipt of a widow's pension under any of the enactments mentioned in subsection (3) ("the DSS pension") and in receipt of a pension paid under the Armed Forces Pension Scheme shall on remarriage or when living together as husband and wife with a member of the opposite sex only retain the Forces Family Pension (attributable).

    (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a widow in receipt of a basic pension under section 44 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992; and a widow in receipt of such a pension who has remarried or is living together as husband and wife with a member of the opposite sex may not retain the Forces Family Pension (attributable).

    (3) The enactments referred to in subsection (1) are—

(a) the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983, and any order re-enacting the provisions of that order,

(b) the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983, and any subsequent scheme made under the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939,

(c) any scheme made under the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939 or the Polish Resettlement Act 1947 applying the provisions of any such order as is referred to in paragraph (a),

(d) the order made under section 1(5) of the Ulster Defence Regiment Act 1969 concerning pensions and other grants in respect of disablement or death due to service in the Ulster Defence Regiment.)'.

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Conditions for coming into force of Part III

   

Mr Eric Pickles
Mrs Jacqui Lait
Mr Edward Leigh
Mr Laurence Robertson
Miss Julie Kirkbride
Mr Desmond Swayne

NC25

*To move the following Clause:—

    '48A. The measures in this Part shall not come into force until the Secretary of State shall have procured the publication by the Treasury Solicitor of—

(a) A statement from the Treasury Solicitor summarising the advice received by the Secretary of State which relied upon by the Secretary of State in support of his statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998; and

(b) All and any Advice received from Counsel on the subject of whether the provisions of this Part are compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights and, if such advice was given by Counsel otherwise than in writing, any written record of the same.'.

Prepared 15 Feb 2000