The Local Government Reorganisation (Compensation for Loss of Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 1996 Order” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) 1996(1);

“the 2014 Act” means the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014(2);

“CSCS” means a Civil Service Compensation Scheme made and maintained by the Department of Finance and Personnel under Article 3 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;

“employment” does not include the office of councillor;

“enhanced redundancy payment” means statutory redundancy payment and compensation paid under these regulations;

“local government body” means a council or joint committee of a council which has been constituted as a body corporate;

“loss” means the loss of employment or office in the circumstances specified in regulation 3 and 4;

“material date” means the date of the final day of a person’s employment which is lost;

“the prescribed period” is the period which commences on 1st April 2015 and ends on 31st December 2019;

“the Pension Regulations” mean the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014(3) and the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014(4);

“recognised pension scheme” means either the Local Government Pension Scheme or the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme Northern Ireland, as the case may be.

(2) Expressions not defined in paragraph (1) but used in these Regulations and in the Pension Regulations have the same meaning as in those Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16).

(2)

2014 c. 8 (N.I.).

(3)

S.R. 2014 No. 188.

(4)

S.R. 2014 No. 189.