Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

Payments to avoid reduction of retiring allowance and death grant

C9.—(1) This regulation applies to a pensionable employee whose retiring allowance would be subject to reduction under regulation E3(4) or (5) (reduction in respect of reckonable service before 1st April 1972, etc.).

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) to (9), a person to whom this regulation applies may, by notice in writing given to the Committee, elect to make payment to the fund in order to avoid all or part of the reduction in his retiring allowance and in any death grant that may become payable under regulation E11.

(3) A notice under paragraph (2) must specify whether the reckonable service in respect of which the reduction is to be avoided is the whole, and if not, what part it is, of his reckonable service before, as the case may be—

(a) 1st April 1972; or

(b) in the case of a male employee, any earlier date on which he became a widower or was judicially separated from his wife or on which his marriage was dissolved.

(4) An election may not be made in respect of a period of reckonable service of less than one year unless—

(a) the whole of the person’s reckonable service before 1st April 1972; or

(b) where he has previously made an election in respect of part of that service, the remainder of it,

amounts to less than one year.

(5) A notice under paragraph (2) must specify whether payment is to be made—

(a) by a lump sum; or

(b) by instalments; or

(c) by way of additional contributions.

(6) An election to make payment by a lump sum or by instalments must be made within 12 months after first becoming a person to whom this regulation applies.

(7) An election to make payment by a lump sum may not be made after attaining the age of 65 years.

(8) An election to make payment by instalments may not be made—

(a) before attaining the age of 60 years or after attaining the age of 65 years; or

(b) after making an election to make payment by way of additional contributions; or

(c) if in the particular case the Committee so resolve, without having, at his own expense, undergone a medical examination to their satisfaction.

(9) Elections to make payment by way of additional contributions may be made from time to time, but not—

(a) after attaining the age of 64 years; or

(b) after making an election to make payment by instalments; or

(c) if, in the particular case the Committee so resolve, without having, at his own expense, undergone a medical examination to their satisfaction.

(10) Subject to paragraph (11) and to Part IV of Schedule 5, payment is to be made—

(a) in the case of an election to make payment by a lump sum, inaccordance with Part I of Schedule 5;

(b) in the case of an election to make payment by instalments, in accordance with Part II of that Schedule; and

(c) in the case of an election to make payment by way of additional contributions, in accordance with Part III of that Schedule.

(11) Payment in accordance with paragraph (10) may be discontinued if the employee satisfies the Committee that its continuance would cause financial hardship.