Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

Increase of reckonable service at discretion of employing authority

D7.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), if the employing authority are satisfied that, having regard to the interests of the efficient exercise of their functions, there are exceptional reasons for doing so they may resolve to add an additional period to a pensionable employee’s reckonable service.

(2) A resolution under paragraph (1) may be passed before or within 6 months after the person becomes a pensionable employee in the authority’s employment, but not after he has attained the age of 59 years unless he did so after becoming such an employee.

(3) The additional period is to be specified in the resolution and is not to exceed the maximum determined in accordance with Schedule 3.

(4) Where the employing authority have passed a resolution under paragraph (1) and the employee—

(a) remains in his employment under that authority until he attainspensionable age; or

(b) on ceasing to hold that employment before attaining that age is incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of the employment by reason of permanent ill-health or infirmity of mind or body; or

(c) dies while in that employment, he is entitled to reckon as reckonable service the additional period specified in the resolution.

(5) In any other case where the employing authority have passed such a resolution, the employee is entitled to reckon as reckonable service an additional period of

where—

• A is the additional period specified in the resolution;

• T is the period during which the employee has been in the employment of the authority who passed the resolution; and

• R is the period during which the employee would have been in that employment if paragraph (4)(a) had applied.