Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Meaning of “child”

• G1.  For the purposes of these regulations “child” means a person who—

  (a)

  has not attained the age of 17 years,

  (b)

  has attained that age and has since been—

  (i)

  receiving full-time education, or

  (ii)

  undergoing a full-time course of training of not less than 2 years' duration for a trade, profession or vocation,

  either continuously or continuously with the exception of a period which the Committee has in its discretion decided to disregard (on being satisfied that his education or training ought not to be regarded as completed), or

  (c)

  has attained that age and is incapacitated by reason of ill-health or infirmity of mind or body which arose either—

  (i)

  before he attained that age, or

  (ii)

  while receiving such full-time education or training, or

  (iii)

  during a period which the Committee has decided to disregard under paragraph (b).