Citation, commencement and retrospection
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2008 except as provided for in paragraph (2).
(2) Regulation 3 shall have effect from 1st October 2007.
Amendment of Regulations
2. Schedule 6 (The Committee) of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(1) shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3.
3. In Part III (Expenses and Allowances Payable by the Committee)—
(a)for paragraph 26 substitute—
“26.—(1) The Committee may, with the approval of the Department, pay to a member of the Committee an allowance, in addition to any payments made under paragraph 24.
(2) Such allowance shall not exceed the amount as the Department may from time to time determine under section 36 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972(2).
(3) The allowance shall be claimed in respect of an approved duty by a Committee member.
(4) A claim shall be made to the Secretary to the Committee in such form as the Committee may direct and shall include a declaration that the member—
(a)has not and will not make any claim for allowances from any other body in respect of the approved duty to which the claim refers; and
(b)the amounts claimed are strictly in accordance with the provisions of this Part.”;
(b)delete paragraph 27;
(c)in paragraph 28 delete the word “attendance”; and
(d)in paragraph 29 delete the definition of “attendance allowance”.
Revocation
4. The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007(3) are revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 20th November 2007.
J Ritchie
A senior officer of the Department of the Environment