Aggregate Scheme costs
61.—(1) Administering authorities and Scheme employers must have regard to any guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers about how future costs of the Scheme will be met.
(2) To enable the Scottish Ministers to calculate those costs for the purposes of that guidance, each administering authority must provide to the Scottish Ministers by 31st August 2017, and by 31st August in every third year afterwards, all the information used for the purposes of providing an actuarial valuation under regulation 60 (actuarial valuations of pension funds).
(3) For the purposes of that guidance, the Scottish Ministers must appoint an actuary to provide by 31st October 2017 and in every third year afterwards—
(a)an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the Scheme as at 31st March 2017 and in every third year afterwards, based on the information provided to the Scottish Ministers under paragraph (2), carried out in accordance with any direction issued by the Treasury under section 11 of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013(1);
(b)a report in respect of the valuation (“the valuation report”); and
(c)an overall cost certificate.
(4) The valuation report must contain a statement of the financial and demographic assumptions used in making the valuation; and the statement must show how the assumptions relate to the events which have actually occurred in relation to the members of the Scheme since the last valuation.
(5) The assumptions used in making the valuation under paragraph (4) shall be determined by the Scottish Ministers after consultation with such persons with whom consultation appears to the Scottish Ministers to be desirable.
(6) An overall cost certificate is a certificate—
(a)specifying the cost of future accrual of pension liabilities; and
(b)adjusted where appropriate to reflect surpluses or deficits arising from variations between events which have actually occurred in relation to members of the Scheme and the assumptions used in making valuations for each year following 31st March 2014.