Section 2A
Future and Nominated Members’ eligibility for pension
of Parliamentary Pensions Act 1978
(1)
Unless otherwise expressly provided, a future Member is not eligible for any pension or gratuity under the provisions of this Act in respect of his or her reckonable service as a future Member.
(2)
To avoid doubt —
a future Member who holds any office remains eligible for a pension under the provisions of this Act in respect of his or her reckonable service in that office; and
a person who, on the date immediately before he or she becomes a future Member, has the minimum period of reckonable service as a Member to be eligible for a pension under section 3 (including any period of reckonable service which may be counted by virtue of the repealed section 6), remains eligible for a pension under the provisions of this Act in respect of his or her reckonable service as a Member as of that date.
(3)
Any person who on 1 January 1995 is a nominated Member is not eligible for a pension under the provisions of this Act in respect of his or her service as a Member on or after that date.