Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 PRELIMINARY

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. PART 2 MEMBERSHIP OF SCHEME

   1. 3. General eligibility for membership

   2. 4. Employees of community admission bodies

   3. 5. Employees of transferee admission bodies

   4. 6. Admission agreements – further provisions

   5. 7. Separate employments, etc.

   6. 8. Further restrictions on eligibility

   7. 9. Joining the Scheme

   8. 10. Ending of membership

   9. 11. Periods of membership

   10. 12. Re-employed and rejoining deferred members

   11. 13. Concurrent employments

4. PART 3 CONTRIBUTIONS

   1. 14. Contributions during child-related leave

   2. 15. Contributions during reserve forces service leave

   3. 16. Contributions during trade dispute absence

   4. 17. Contributions during absences with permission

   5. 18. Applications to make absence contributions

   6. 19. Payment of additional regular contributions (ARCs)

   7. 20. Discontinuance of ARCs

   8. 21. Additional voluntary contributions and shared cost additional voluntary contributions

   9. 22. Use of accumulated value of AVCs and SCAVCs

   10. 23. Separate treatment of AVCs and SCAVCs from other contributions

   11. 24. Cost of calculations of additional pension where no notification given under regulation 22(4)

5. PART 4 PENSION FUND AND EMPLOYERS’ PAYMENTS

   1. 25. Administration and management

   2. 26. The fund

   3. 27. Governance policy statement

   4. 28. Admission agreement funds

   5. 29. Accounts and audit

   6. 30. Funding strategy statement

   7. 31. Actuarial valuations and certificates

   8. 32. Supply of copies of valuations, certificates, etc.

   9. 33. Special circumstances where revised actuarial valuations and certificates must be obtained

   10. 34. Employer’s contributions

   11. 35. Employer’s payment following resolution to increase membership or award additional pension

   12. 36. Employer’s further payments

   13. 37. Payments by employing authorities to the Committee

   14. 38. Additional costs arising from employing authority’s level of performance

   15. 39. Interest

   16. 40. Deduction and recovery of a member’s contributions

   17. 41. Rights to return of contributions

   18. 42. Exclusion of rights to return of contributions

6. PART 5 PAYMENT OF BENEFITS, ETC.

   1. 43. Pension increases under the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993

   2. 44. Contributions equivalent premiums

   3. 45. Commencement of pensions

   4. 46. Interest on late payment of certain benefits

   5. 47. Payments due in respect of deceased persons

   6. 48. Non-assignability

7. PART 6 DETERMINATION OF QUESTIONS AND DISPUTES

   1. 49. Interpretation of Part

   2. 50. First instance decisions – general

   3. 51. First instance determinations: ill-health

   4. 52. Notification of first instance decisions

   5. 53. Appointment of persons to resolve disputes

   6. 54. Right to apply for an appointed person to review a decision

   7. 55. Notice of decisions by the appointed person under regulation 54

   8. 56. Reference of disagreement to the Committee

   9. 57. Notice of decisions by the Committee under regulation 56

   10. 58. Rights of representation

   11. 59. Referral of decisions under regulation 50(1) to the county court

8. PART 7 POLICY STATEMENTS AND INFORMATION

   1. 60. Exchange of information by authorities

   2. 61. Pension administration strategy

   3. 62. Exercise of discretionary functions: policy statements

   4. 63. Communication policy statements

   5. 64. Annual benefit statements

   6. 65. Information to be supplied by employees

9. PART 8 SPECIAL ADJUSTMENTS

   1. 66. Statements of policy concerning abatement of retirement pensions in new employment

   2. 67. Application of abatement policy in individual cases

   3. 68. Forfeiture of pension rights after conviction of employment-related offences

   4. 69. Interim payments directions

   5. 70. Recovery or retention where former member has misconduct obligation

   6. 71. Protection of guaranteed minimum pension rights

   7. 72. Transfer of sums from the fund to compensate for former member’s misconduct

10. PART 9 TRANSFERS

    1. 73. Interpretation of Part

    2. 74. Application of Chapter 4, etc.

    3. 75. Rights to payment out of the fund

    4. 76. Contracting-out requirements affecting transfers out

    5. 77. Bulk transfers (transfer of undertakings), etc.

    6. 78. Calculation of amount of transfer payment under regulation 77

    7. 79. Inward transfers of pension rights

    8. 80. Right to count credited period

    9. 81. Community scheme transferees

11. PART 10 PENSION SHARING

    1. PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

       1. 82. Pension debit member

    2. SHARING OF RIGHTS UNDER THE SCHEME

       1. 83. Interpretation

       2. 84. Discharge of liability for pension credit rights

       3. 85. Aggregation

       4. 86. Death of a person entitled to a pension credit before discharge

       5. 87. Safeguarded rights

       6. 88. Valuation date

    3. PENSION CREDIT MEMBERS AND PENSION CREDIT

       1. 89. Application of the Regulations to pension credit members

       2. 90. Calculation

       3. 91. Payment of benefits

       4. 92. Death grants: pension credit members

       5. 93. Commutation: small pensions

    4. TRANSFERS

       1. 94. Transfers out

       2. 95. Transfers in

12. Signature

13. 1. SCHEDULE 1

       INTERPRETATION

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED IN ADMISSION AGREEMENTS WITH TRANSFEREE ADMISSION BODIES

    3. SCHEDULE 3

       THE COMMITTEE

       1. PART 1 CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMITTEE

       2. PART 2 POWERS OF THE COMMITTEE

       3. PART 3 EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES PAYABLE BY THE COMMITTEE

14. Explanatory Note