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

Application of abatement policy in individual cases

67.—(1) Where a member who is entitled to the payment of a retirement pension proposes to enter a new employment with an employing authority, he must inform the employer about that entitlement.

(2) If such a member enters such a new employment he must immediately notify the Committee in writing.

(3) The Committee—

(a) must have regard to regulation 12 (application of abatement policy in individual cases) of the Transitional Regulations;

(b) must apply the policy published by it under regulation 66 (statements of policy concerning abatement of retirement pensions in new employment) to the member; and

(c) it may reduce the annual rate of that pension or, as the case may be, may cease to pay it, during the period while he holds the new employment, in accordance with that policy.

(4) Any retirement pension paid following a request under regulation 18(1) (flexible retirement) of the Benefits Regulations is not subject to abatement under regulation 66 in respect of any subsequent employment with the employing authority who is his employing authority at the date of his request.