The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Amendment of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013

10.  In regulation 21 (assumed pensionable pay)—

(a) in paragraph (2)(b) after “child-related leave” insert “other than any part of that leave period where the pensionable pay received is greater than the assumed pensionable pay that the member would otherwise have been treated as receiving for that part of the leave period”;

(b) in paragraph (4) for “The annual rate of assumed pensionable pay” substitute “Subject to paragraph (4A), the annual rate of assumed pensionable pay”;

(c) in paragraph (4)(a)(i) and (4)(b)(i) for “regulations 39(2)(a) (calculation of ill-health pension amounts) and 40(3) (death grants: active members)” substitute “regulations 39(1)(a) (calculation of ill health pension amounts), 40(3) (death grants: active members), 41(4)(b) (survivor benefits: partners of active members), 42(4)(b), 42(5)(b), 42(9)(b) and 42(10)(b) (survivor benefits: children of active members)”;

(d) after paragraph (4) insert—

“(4A) If the pensionable pay the member received in the periods specified in paragraph (4)(a)(i) or (4)(b)(i) was reduced as a result of absence due to a trade dispute or absence with permission from the member’s Scheme employer, such reduction is to be ignored for the purposes of calculating the member’s assumed pensionable pay.”.