Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

1. Introductory Text

2. PART A PRELIMINARY

   1. A1. Citation and commencement

3. A2. Interpretation

4. PART B PENSIONABLE EMPLOYMENT

   1. B1. Pensionable employees

5. B2. Opting into pensionable employment

6. B3. Opting out of pensionable employment

7. B4. Rejoining pensionable employment

8. B5. Power to admit employees of other bodies

9. B6. Treatment of certain additional duties

10. B7. Treatment of certain separate employments

11. B8. Deemed employments

12. PART C PAYMENTS BY EMPLOYEES

    1. C1. Payment and amount of employee’s contributions

13. C2. Leave of absence from duty

14. C3. Absence due to trade dispute

15. C4. Lump sum payment to increase reckonable service

16. C5. Periodical payments to increase reckonable service

17. C6. Additional payments by certain pensionable employees in respect of previous service

18. C7. Additional payments in respect of previous part-time service

19. C8. Discontinuance of periodical payments in certain cases

20. C9. Payments to avoid reduction of retiring allowance and death grant

21. C10. Continuation of certain payments

22. C11. Further additional contributions

23. C12. Effect of opting out of pensionable employment on certain additional payments

24. C13. Statement of remuneration received otherwise than from employing authority

25. C14. Deduction and recovery of employee’s contributions

26. C15. Return of employee’s contributions in certain cases

27. C16. Effect of return to local government on right to a return of contributions

28. C17. Reduction of returned contributions following payment in lieu of contributions

29. C18. Limitation of payments

30. PART D SERVICE

    1. D1. Reckonable service

31. D2. Qualifying service

32. D3. Exclusion from reckonable service and qualifying service

33. D4. Increase of reckonable service on lump sum payment

34. D5. Increase of reckonable service on making periodical payments

35. D6. Increase of reckonable service on completion or cessation of payments under former regulations

36. D7. Increase of reckonable service at discretion of employing authority

37. D8. Reduction of added years reckonable on payment as reckonable service

38. D9. Previous service of certain pensionable employees

39. D10. Previous service of certain variable-time employees

40. D11. Previous service of certain re-employed pensioners

41. D12. Previous service of part-time employees

42. D13. Increase of reckonable service of part-time employees

43. D14. Intervals in service due to illness or injury

44. PART E BENEFITS

    1. E1. Guaranteed minimum pension for certain pensionable employees and their widows or widowers

45. E2. Entitlement to retirement pension and retiring allowance

46. E3. Amount of retirement pension and retiring allowance

47. E4. Ill-health retirement grant

48. E5. Entitlement to widow’s short-term and long-term pensions

49. E6. Amounts of widow’s short-term and long-term pensions

50. E7. Widow’s special short-term pension

51. E8. Entitlement to children’s short-term and long-term pensions

52. E9. Amounts of children’s short-term and long-term pensions

53. E10. Children’s special short-term pension

54. E11. Death grant

55. E12. Pensions of widowers, etc.

56. E13. Reduction of retirement pension in the case of certain re-employed pensioners

57. E14. Combined benefits in the case of certain re-employed pensioners

58. E15. Separate benefits in the case of certain re-employed pensioners

59. E16. Adjustment of superannuation rights on death of certain re-employed pensioners

60. E17. Surrender of part of retirement pension

61. E18. Power to compound certain small pensions

62. E19. Pensionable remuneration

63. E20. Pay restraint not to affect pensionable remuneration in certain cases

64. E21. Certificates as to reduction in remuneration

65. E22. Calculation of part-time service

66. E23. Counting of non-contributing service

67. E24. Disregard of certain reckonable service in determining entitlement to benefits

68. E25. Counting of certain reckonable service and non-contributing service in determining entitlement to benefits

69. E26. Disregard of certain reckonable service in calculating amount of benefits

70. E27. Counting of certain reckonable service in calculating amount of benefits

71. E28. National Insurance

72. E29. Benefits not assignable

73. E30. Interest on late payment of certain benefits

74. E31. Increase in certain benefits already payable

75. E32. Entitlement to benefits where a person has given a notification in accordance with regulation B3

76. PART F WAR SERVICE

    1. F1. Interpretation, etc.

77. F2. War service

78. F3. Election as to war service

79. F4. Modified application of regulation F3 in certain cases

80. F5. Notice of election

81. F6. Reckonable service and benefits

82. F7. Revision of certain elections

83. PART G MODIFICATIONS IN SPECIAL CASES

    1. G1. Application to existing officers

84. G2. Special provisions for the reckoning by existing officers as service of certain kinds of employment prior to 1st April 1950

85. G3. Added years in the case of certain existing officers

86. G4. Application to certain female nurses, physiotherapists, midwives and health visitors

87. G5. Power to agree notional remuneration

88. PART J INTERCHANGE, ETC.

    1. J1. Interpretation

89. J2. Outwards transfers

90. J3. Additional transfer value on outwards transfer in certain cases

91. J4. Amount of transfer value, etc.

92. J5. Termination of right to payment out of the fund

93. J6. Rights where a person transfers to the Communities' scheme and leaves without a right to either an immediate or prospective pension

94. J7. Compound interest on certain sums

95. J8. Inward transfers

96. J9. Right to reckon service

97. J10. Increase in return of contributions

98. J11. National Insurance modification for flat-rate retirement pension

99. J12. National Insurance modification for graduated retirement pension

100. J13. Certain persons who become subject to other superannuation schemes

101. J14. Transfer of pension rights

102. J15. Revaluation of guaranteed minimum in certain cases

103. PART L INJURY ALLOWANCES, ETC.

     1. L1. Interpretation

104. L2. Persons to whom Part L applies

105. L3. Loss of employment through permanent incapacity

106. L4. Reduction in remuneration

107. L5. Allowances for pensioners

108. L6. Death benefits

109. L7. The relevant body

110. L8. Rights and payments to be taken into account in determining amount of benefit

111. L9. Retrospective effect

112. L10. Finance

113. L11. Notice of decisions

114. PART M FORFEITURE, ETC.

     1. M1. Forfeiture of rights

115. M2. Transfer of certain sums from the fund

116. M3. Recovery or retention by employing authority of certain sums from the fund

117. PART N DECISIONS AND APPEALS

     1. N1. Initial decisions

118. N2. Decisions by employing authorities as to status of employees

119. N3. Decisions by the Committee as to status of employees

120. N4. Decisions by the Committee as to war service

121. N5. Decisions by the Committee as to entitlement to benefits

122. N6. Decisions by the Committee as to amount of benefits

123. N7. Notification of decisions

124. N8. Appeals

125. PART P ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

     1. P1. Constitution and powers of the Committee

126. P2. Management of the fund

127. P3. Use and investment of fund’s moneys

128. P4. Accounts, audit and annual report

129. P5. Periodical valuation of fund

130. P6. Actuary’s certificates

131. P7. Employer’s contributions

132. P8. Employer’s additional contributions

133. P9. Employer’s further payments

134. P10. Payments by employing authorities to the Committee

135. P11. Extra charges resulting from early retirement

136. P12. Pensions Order payments

137. PART R MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES OF AUTHORITIES

     1. R1. Information to be supplied by certain employees

138. R2. Records to be kept by authorities

139. R3. Transmission of documents and information

140. R4. Payments due in respect of deceased persons

141. R5. Pensions Order premiums

142. PART S MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL

     1. S1. Periods of time

143. S2. Application to benefits in respect of former employments

144. S3. Revocations

145. Signature

146. SCHEDULES

     1. SCHEDULE 1

        — Glossary of expressions

     2. SCHEDULE 2

        — Pensionable employees

        1. PART I — Scheduled body

        2. PART II — Whole-time pensionable employees employed in a manual capacity

        3. PART III — Persons employed in a qualifying part-time employment

     3. SCHEDULE 3

        — Maximum length of additional periods

     4. SCHEDULE 4

        — Amount to be paid for additional period

        1. PART I — Lump sum payment

        2. PART II — Periodical payments

     5. SCHEDULE 5

        — Payment to avoid reduction of retiring allowance

        1. PART I — Lump sum payment

        2. PART II — Instalments

        3. PART III — Additional contributions

        4. PART IV — Uncompleted payments

     6. SCHEDULE 6

        — Further additional contributions

     7. SCHEDULE 7

        — Limitation of payments under Part C

     8. SCHEDULE 8

        — Uncompleted payment of additional contributions

     9. SCHEDULE 9

        — Additional reckonable service for ill-health

     10. SCHEDULE 10

         — Payment for additional reckonable service of part-time employees

         1. PART I — Amount to be paid for additional period

         2. PART II — Calculation of additional period

     11. SCHEDULE 11

         — Reduction of benefits on early payment

     12. SCHEDULE 12

         — Surrender of part of retirement pension

         1. PART I — Limits on amount surrendered

         2. PART II — Procedure

     13. SCHEDULE 13

         — Women’s Services

     14. SCHEDULE 14

         — Public Service Schemes

         1. PART I

         2. PART II

         3. PART III

     15. SCHEDULE 15

         — Modifications to the regulations in their application to special cases

         1. PART I — Existing officers

         2. PART II — Certain female nurses, physiotherapists, midwives and health visitors

     16. SCHEDULE 16

         — Calculation of transfer values

         1. PART I

         2. PART II

         3. PART III

         4. PART IV

         5. PART V

     17. SCHEDULE 17

         — Calculation of reckonable service to be credited under regulation J9(1)(a)

     18. SCHEDULE 18

         — Fund apportionment where 100 or more transfer their pension rights under regulation J14

         1. PART I

         2. PART II

     19. SCHEDULE 19

         — Bodies to certain of whose employees Part L applies

     20. SCHEDULE 20

         — The Committee

         1. PART I — Constitution of the Committee

         2. PART II — Powers of the Committee

         3. PART III — Expenses and allowances payable by the Committee

     21. SCHEDULE 21

         Revocations

147. Explanatory Note