AI Summary of 4. Obligation on paying authorities to make payments.
Reductions of public service pensions under section 2 or 2A shall be paid or disposed of as the Minister directs. For the purposes of aggregation, the Minister may direct a paying authority to reduce the annualised amount of a public service pension payable to a pensioner by the total amount of the reduction applicable in respect of all public service pensions payable to that person, or may direct that the paying authority not reduce the annualised amount in accordance with section 2 or 2A.
Where any reduction has not been duly paid or disposed of in accordance with a Ministerial direction, the Minister may recover the amount from the paying authority as a simple contract debt. If a paying authority fails or refuses to comply and does not do so within 28 days after service by post of a notice requiring compliance, the High Court may, on application by the Minister, order the authority to remit the reductions within a specified time and may include such terms and conditions as to the payment of costs as the Court considers appropriate.
4. Obligation on paying authorities to make payments.
(1) Without prejudice to subsection (2), reductions of public service pensions under section 2 or 2A shall be paid or disposed of as the Minister may direct and, in particular, the Minister may, for the purposes of the aggregation of public service pensions, direct a paying authority -
(a) to reduce the annualised amount of a public service pension payable by the paying authority to a pensioner by the total amount of the reduction that applies in relation to the pensioner under section 2 or 2A in respect of all public service pensions payable to him or her, or
(b) not to reduce the annualised amount of a public service pension payable by the paying authority to a pensioner in accordance with section 2 or 2A.