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Pensions Bill [HL]

55: Clause 24, page 17, line 5, at end insert— ““(4A) The appropriate Minister must not make regulations under this section where the effect of those regulations is either— (a) to impose an obligation on the person who would be the recipient of the relevant benefits to make a contribution to the cost of those benefits, when there was no such obligation in the person’s original contract of service as a judge; or (b) to increase the level of any such contribution to a higher level than that specified in that person’s original contract of service, except where the increase is in accordance with the terms of that person’s original contract of service and the increase is authorised in line with the consumer price index. (4B) Where the appropriate Minister makes regulations in breach of subsection (4A), those regulations shall be void and of no effect only to the extent that they are in breach of subsection (4A), or consequential on such a breach.””