MEANING OF "THE RELEVANT PENSION OBLIGATIONS" (Hansard, 25 March 1980)

§ Mr. Fowler
I beg to move amendment No. 79, in page 38, line 1, leave out from "pay" to "employment" in line 2 and insert contributions in respect of current periods of".

Mr. Deputy Speaker
With this, we may take Government amendment No. 80.

§ Mr. Fowler
These amendments clear up an ambiguity to which the Opposition drew our attention in Committee. For the reasons that I gave in the earlier debate on British Rail pensions, it is not the intention that current service pensions will be covered by the provisions of the Bill. There was a possible doubt about the provision of so-called antedating contributions. It is our intention that antedating contributions will not be treated as current service pensions, and that they will be covered as relevant pensions obligations by the Bill. The amendments resolve that doubt, and meet the undertakings that we gave to the Committee.