Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

1. Introductory Text

2. PART A PRELIMINARY

   1. A1. Citation and commencement

   2. A2. Interpretation

3. PART B PENSIONABLE EMPLOYMENT

   1. B1. Pensionable employees

   2. B2. Opting into pensionable employment

   3. B3. Opting out of pensionable employment

   4. B4. Rejoining pensionable employment

   5. B5. Power to admit employees of other bodies

   6. B6. Treatment of certain additional duties

   7. B7. Treatment of certain separate employments

   8. B8. Deemed employments

4. PART C PAYMENTS BY EMPLOYEES

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

   2. C2. Leave of absence from duty

   3. C3. Absence due to trade dispute

   4. C4. Lump sum payment to increase reckonable service

   5. C5. Periodical payments to increase reckonable service

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

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

   8. C8. Discontinuance of periodical payments in certain cases

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

   10. C10. Continuation of certain payments

   11. C11. Further additional contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

   18. C18. Limitation of payments

5. PART D SERVICE

   1. D1. Reckonable service

   2. D2. Qualifying service

   3. D3. Exclusion from reckonable service and qualifying service

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

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

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

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

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

   9. D9. Previous service of certain pensionable employees

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

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

   12. D12. Previous service of part-time employees

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

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

6. PART E BENEFITS

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

   2. E2. Entitlement to retirement pension and retiring allowance

   3. E3. Amount of retirement pension and retiring allowance

   4. E4. Ill-health retirement grant

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

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

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

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

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

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

   11. E11. Death grant

   12. E12. Pensions of widowers, etc.

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

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

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

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

   17. E17. Surrender of part of retirement pension

   18. E18. Power to compound certain small pensions

   19. E19. Pensionable remuneration

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

   21. E21. Certificates as to reduction in remuneration

   22. E22. Calculation of part-time service

   23. E23. Counting of non-contributing service

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

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

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

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

   28. E28. National Insurance

   29. E29. Benefits not assignable

   30. E30. Interest on late payment of certain benefits

   31. E31. Increase in certain benefits already payable

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

7. PART F WAR SERVICE

   1. F1. Interpretation, etc.

   2. F2. War service

   3. F3. Election as to war service

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

   5. F5. Notice of election

   6. F6. Reckonable service and benefits

   7. F7. Revision of certain elections

8. PART G MODIFICATIONS IN SPECIAL CASES

   1. G1. Application to existing officers

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

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

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

   5. G5. Power to agree notional remuneration

9. PART J INTERCHANGE, ETC.

   1. J1. Interpretation

   2. J2. Outwards transfers

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

   4. J4. Amount of transfer value, etc.

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

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

   7. J7. Compound interest on certain sums

   8. J8. Inward transfers

   9. J9. Right to reckon service

   10. J10. Increase in return of contributions

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

   12. J12. National Insurance modification for graduated retirement pension

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

   14. J14. Transfer of pension rights

   15. J15. Revaluation of guaranteed minimum in certain cases

10. PART L INJURY ALLOWANCES, ETC.

    1. L1. Interpretation

    2. L2. Persons to whom Part L applies

    3. L3. Loss of employment through permanent incapacity

    4. L4. Reduction in remuneration

    5. L5. Allowances for pensioners

    6. L6. Death benefits

    7. L7. The relevant body

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

    9. L9. Retrospective effect

    10. L10. Finance

    11. L11. Notice of decisions

11. PART M FORFEITURE, ETC.

    1. M1. Forfeiture of rights

    2. M2. Transfer of certain sums from the fund

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

12. PART N DECISIONS AND APPEALS

    1. N1. Initial decisions

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

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

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

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

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

    7. N7. Notification of decisions

    8. N8. Appeals

13. PART P ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

    1. P1. Constitution and powers of the Committee

    2. P2. Management of the fund

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

    4. P4. Accounts, audit and annual report

    5. P5. Periodical valuation of fund

    6. P6. Actuary’s certificates

    7. P7. Employer’s contributions

    8. P8. Employer’s additional contributions

    9. P9. Employer’s further payments

    10. P10. Payments by employing authorities to the Committee

    11. P11. Extra charges resulting from early retirement

    12. P12. Pensions Order payments

14. PART R MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES OF AUTHORITIES

    1. R1. Information to be supplied by certain employees

    2. R2. Records to be kept by authorities

    3. R3. Transmission of documents and information

    4. R4. Payments due in respect of deceased persons

    5. R5. Pensions Order premiums

15. PART S MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL

    1. S1. Periods of time

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

    3. S3. Revocations

16. Signature

17. 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

18. Explanatory Note