Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 2nd April 2001 and except as provided in paragraph (2) shall have effect from that date.

(2) Regulations 4 to 9 shall have effect as from 1st December 2000.

Amendment of Regulations

2.  The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(1) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 9.

Age restrictions

3.  In regulation B2 paragraphs (2) and (3) shall be omitted.

Death grant: pensioners with 10 years' or more membership

4.  Regulation E3 shall be revoked.

Death grant: pensioners with less than 10 years' membership

5.  For regulation E4 substitute—

“Death grant: pensioners

E4.— (1) If at the time of his death a person—

(a) was entitled to receive payments in respect of a retirement pension (excluding a pension to which he would not be entitled apart from regulation D16 or D18), or

(b) would have been so entitled but for the operation of Schedule D5 (re-employed pensioners),

there shall be paid a lump sum death grant in accordance with regulation E8.

(2) The amount of the death grant payable under paragraph (1) is an amount equal to the total amount that would (or would but for Schedule D5 (re-employed pensioners) or his death, or both) have been paid to him by way of retirement pension for the first 5 years after he became (or would but for Schedule D5 have become) entitled to receive payments in respect of the pension, reduced by the total of any payments made to him in respect of the pension.”.

Surviving spouse deductions from certain death grants

6.  In regulation E5(1)(a) the word “or” shall be inserted in place of the comma between “E1, E2” and the words “or E3(2)” shall be omitted.

Part-timers' pensionable remuneration

7.  In regulation E7 the words “, E3(2)(a) or (3)(b) or E4(2)(ii)” shall be omitted.

Nomination of beneficiary of death grant

8.  In regulation E8—

(a) in paragraph (1) the words “E3(1)” shall be omitted;

(b) in paragraph (6)(a) the words “E3(1)” shall be omitted.

Commutation: exceptional circumstances of ill-health

9.  In regulation H6(1) the words “E3 or” shall be omitted.

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