Schedule 1 Transitional provisions – partner’s and children’s pensions
266.Paragraphs 11 and 13 of Schedule 3 contain transitional provisions for entitlement to partner’s and children’s pensions.
267.Pensions for individuals will be calculated under the new rules, save where covered by the transitional and saving provisions in Schedule 3. Under paragraph 10, the old rules will apply in respect of a pensioner member i.e. a scheme pensioner. Without paragraph 11, the new provision for an unmarried partner’s pension made under rule 57 (2) would not apply to pensioners or survivors of deceased pensioners. Paragraph 11 applies this new provision to such individuals. Thus eligible unmarried partners of existing scheme pensioners and deceased pensioners qualify under rule 57.
268.The provisions of paragraph 13 apply to those who have 15 years of qualifying service at the date the new rules come into force. If they subsequently take early retirement, for the purposes of calculating a partner’s and/or children’s pension, the paragraph provides for the disregard of any reduction made to the pension as a result of taking early retirement.