The Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Interpretation of Part V

32.—(1) In this Part relevant employment is employment (otherwise than as a member of the fire brigade as defined in Article 2(2) of the Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1984(1) or as an employee pensionable under the superannuation scheme provided in regulations for the time being in force under Article 11 of the 1972 Order or as an employee of Citybus Limited or Ulsterbus Limited) with a LGPS employer.

(2) In this Part “the relevant employer”, in relation to any person, means—

(a) the employer by whom the person in question was employed immediately before he first qualifies for any allowance or lump sum payable under this Part;

(b) if he dies without qualifying for any such allowance or lump sum, the employer who last employed him in a relevant employment before his death; or

(c) if the employer specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) has ceased to exist, the employer to whom he would have been transferred if he had continued in the employment in question.

(3) For the purposes of this Part, if a person—

(a) sustains an injury while travelling as a passenger by vehicle to or from his place of work with his employer’s permission (whether express or implied); and

(b) at the time of the injury the vehicle was being operated (otherwise than in the course of a public transport service) by or on behalf of, or pursuant to arrangements made by, his employer,

he shall be treated as having sustained the injury as a result of a requirement of carrying out his work.

(1)

S.I. 1984/1821 (N.I. 11)