The Local Government (Early Termination of Employment) (Discretionary Compensation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

PART X MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTARY

Finance

31.  The cost of any payment to be made under these Regulations must not be met out of the fund.

Transitional provisions and savings

32.  Regulations 20, 22, 23 and 24 shall have effect as if references in them to provisions of the Pension Regulations included, in relation to any case in which comparable provisions of the 2000 Regulations apply (by virtue of the Transitional Regulations), references to those comparable provisions.

Consequential amendments

33.  In the Pension Regulations –

(a) in paragraph (9) of regulation 54 (power of employing authority to increase total membership of members leaving employment at or after 50), immediately before the words “in respect of a cessation”, there shall be inserted “or regulation 7 of the Local Government (Early Termination of Employment) (Discretionary Compensation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003”;

(b) in paragraph (2)(a) of regulation 130 (conversion of periods credited under Discretionary Payments Regulations etc. into membership), immediately before the words “with a period”, there shall be inserted “or Part IV of the Local Government (Early Termination of Employment) (Discretionary Compensation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003”.

Revocations and savings

34.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the following provisions of the 2001 Regulations are hereby revoked –

(a) Parts II to IV;

(b) Part I of Schedule 1; and

(c) Schedule 2.

(2) Where a person has been awarded a credited period under regulation 7 of the 2001 Regulations, regulations 16 and 17 of those Regulations shall continue to apply as if these Regulations had not been made.