The Pensions Increase (Approved Schemes) (Local Government) Regulations 1972

Payment of benefits equivalent to pensions increase

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, a local authority shall, in respect of any period beginning on or after 1st September 1971, pay to any person to whom these regulations apply and who was employed by them on the day when his reckonable service ended or, in connection with functions afterwards transferred to that authority, was employed on that day by another local authority an amount equal to the increase which would be payable to him under the Act of 1971—

(a) if there were payable to him—

(i) a superannuation allowance under the civil service pension scheme, beginning on the day following the termination of his reckonable service and of an amount equal to the notional pension ascribed to him under regulation 5(1) of these regulations, and

(ii) in a case where a notional lump sum is ascribed to him under regulation 5(2) of these regulations, a lump sum under the civil service pension scheme, beginning on the day following the termination of his reckonable service, becoming payable on his attaining minimum pensionable age or satisfying the local authority that he is disabled by physical or mental infirmity, as the case may be, and of an amount equal to that notional lump sum, and

(b) if any allowance which might (but for the Act of 1971) have been paid to him under the Pensions Increase (Approved Schemes) (Local Government) Regulations 1968 and 1969 were a relevant increase within the meaning of section 6(10) of that Act.

(2) Where by virtue of section 18(2) of the Act of 1971 (which, in respect of any period between 31st August 1971 and the coming into force of regulations under a provision of Part II of the Act of 1971, permits the payment on certain pensions of the like increase or supplement as was authorised by regulations under an enactment (replaced by the Act of 1971) corresponding to that provision) any allowance which might (but for the Act of 1971) have been paid to a person to whom these regulations apply under the Pensions Increase (Approved Schemes) (Local Government) Regulations 1968 and 1969 has been paid to him, there shall be deducted from the amount payable to him under paragraph (1) of this regulation the amount of the allowance so paid.