Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

Special provisions for the reckoning by existing officers as service of certain kinds of employment prior to 1st April 1950

G2.—(1) Where an existing officer was entitled—

(a) by virtue of regulation 5(6) of the 1950 regulations or the corresponding provision of the Belfast Corporation Superannuation Scheme to reckon as service any period of employment between 1st April 1939 and 4th February 1948, during which he was subject to the Act of 1937 or any other scheme approved for the purposes of regulation 5(6) of the 1950 regulations;

(b) by virtue of regulation 15(1)(a) of the 1950 regulations or the corresponding provision of the Belfast Corporation Superannuation Scheme to reckon as service any period of employment prior to 1st April 1950 which was reckonable at that date for the purpose of calculating superannuation benefits under the Act of 1865, the Act of 1869, the Act of 1875, the Act of 1919 or any local Act;

(c) by virtue of the proviso to regulation 15(8) of the 1950 regulations or the corresponding provision of the Belfast Corporation Superannuation Scheme to reckon as service any period of employment prior to 1st April 1950 under an employing authority;

(d) by virtue of regulation 15(1)(a) or (b) of the 1951 Scheme to reckon as service any period of employment with the North of Ireland Chemical Company Ltd., the Holywood Gas Company or the Belfast Society for providing Nurses for the Sick Poor; or

(e) by virtue of the proviso to regulation 23 of the 1951 Scheme to reckon as service any period of employment prior to 1st April 1950 reckonable at that date for the purpose of calculating superannuation benefits under the Act of 1943 and any period of employment after that date up to the date when the proviso became applicable to him and in respect of which he had contributed in accordance with the terms thereof,

and that period of employment would have continued to be reckonable under the former regulations had these regulations not been made, then any such period of employment as aforesaid shall be reckonable as service in relation to the employment in which he is a pensionable employee.

(2) Where an existing officer who was subject to the provisions of the Act of 1943 and who did not exercise the option referred to in regulation 23 of the 1951 Scheme is transferred to an office which is, or holds an office which becomes, one which prior to 1st April 1950 would have been pensionable under the Act of 1869, any period of employment under the Belfast Corporation prior to 1st April 1950 which would have been at the date when this regulation becomes applicable to him reckonable as service for the purposes of that Scheme if he had exercised the option under that regulation, shall be reckonable as service under these regulations; but the period of employment from 1st April 1950 to the said date shall be reckonable as service only if he notifies the authority by whom he is employed, being a district council or public body, within 3 months after that date that he intends to pay and pays to that authority all arrears of contributions as from 1st April 1950 either in a lump sum or by such instalments as that authority may allow and in respect of such instalments the provisions of paragraph 2 and 3 of the second Schedule to the 1962 regulations shall apply as if those regulations had not been revoked.

(3) In this regulation—

“the 1951 Scheme” means the Superannuation Scheme made by the Belfast Corporation under section 5A of the Act of 1950, as amended, on 20th April 1951.