Civil servants transferred to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency
21.—(1) The 1998 Regulations apply with the following modifications to a member who is employed by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency as a result of a relevant statutory transfer immediately before which he was a pensionable civil servant.
(2) At the end of regulation 12(2) (exclusions from “pay”) add the words–
“or
(h)the amount of any supplement paid by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in recognition of the difference in contribution rates between members of the principal civil service pension scheme and the Scheme”.
(3) In regulation 30 (early leavers: deferred retirement benefits and elections for early payment)–
(a)in paragraph (1) for the words “may elect to receive payment of them immediately” substitute the words “is entitled, on his so requesting the administering authority in writing, to receive payment of those benefits in respect of his SEPA service immediately or, at his option, at any time before he attains the age of 60”;
(b)omit paragraphs (2), (3) and (8);
(c)in paragraph (4) for the words from the beginning to “85 years” substitute the words “If the member has not attained the age of 60”;
(d)in paragraph (7) for “NRD” substitute the words “60th birthday”;
(e)at the end add the following new paragraph:–
“(9) In this regulation “SEPA service” means–
(a)the period during which the person concerned has remained an active member and in continuous employment of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency following a relevant statutory transfer (as defined in regulation 21(6) of the Transitional Regulations); and
(b)where a transfer value has been accepted from the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme made under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and referred to as such in section 2(10) of that Act, the period of membership which he was entitled to count under regulation J9(1)(a) of the 1987 Regulations.”.
(4) The employment with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency referred to in paragraph (1) does not count as new employment for regulation 109 (statements of policy concerning abatement of retirement pensions in new employment) or regulation 110 (application of abatement policy in individual cases).
(5) The 1998 Regulations and these Regulations shall have effect, so long as the member remains an active member and in continuous employment of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, as if they conferred on the member the same rights relating to service overseas as he would have enjoyed if he had remained subject to the principal civil service pension scheme.
(6) A relevant statutory transfer in relation to a member is a transfer of his employment–
(a)which took place on 1st April 1996 as a consequence of a transfer of functions on that date to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency; or
(b)which took place as a consequence of a transfer to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency of the undertaking in which he was formerly employed to which the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981(1) apply.
(7) A pensionable civil servant is a person who is employed in the civil service of the State and is a member, or is eligible to be a member, of the principal civil service pension scheme.
S.I. 1981/1794; the definition of “undertaking” was amended by the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 (c. 19), section 33.