Citation, commencement and retrospection

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Pension Sharing on Divorce) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on 2nd April 2001 but shall have effect as from 1st December 2000.

Amendment of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

2.  The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(1) shall be amended in accordance with the Schedule.

The Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

3.  In regulation 5(4) of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(2) for “(except those incurred in connection with a FSAVC scheme) may be paid from it” substitute—

• “may be paid from it except—

  (a)

  those incurred in connection with a FSAVC scheme, and

  (b)

  those costs and charges prescribed by regulations made under Article 21, 22 or 38 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999(3) which the Committee is enabled to recover by or under any such regulations”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 16th February 2001.

L.S.

Sam Foster

Minister for the

Department of the Environment