1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Early Termination of Employment) (Discretionary Compensation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 24th March 2003.
2.—(1) Schedule 1 contains definitions of expressions used in these Regulations which apply for their interpretation.
(2) Expressions not defined in Schedule 1 but used in these Regulations and in the Pension Regulations have the same meaning as in those Regulations or, if the expression is not defined in those Regulations, but is defined in the 2000 Regulations, as in the 2000 Regulations.
(3) Schedule 2 has effect for the purposes of the definition of “appropriate percentage” in Schedule 1.
(4) Where these Regulations refer to anything done, required or arising under any provision of the Pension Regulations, those references shall include anything done, required or arising under the corresponding provision of the 2000 Regulations, the 1992 Regulations or the 1981 Regulations.
(5) Where these Regulations refer to a Scheme member or a person who would be or would have been a Scheme member, those references shall include a pensionable employee and a person who would be or would have been a pensionable employee.
3.—(1) These Regulations apply in relation to, or as the case may be, in consequence of the death of, a person –
(a)whose employment is terminated –
(i)by reason of redundancy;
(ii)in the interests of the efficient exercise of the Scheme employer’s functions; or
(iii)in the case of a joint appointment, because the other holder of the appointment has left it; and
(b)who, on his final day of employment, is eligible to be a Scheme member (whether or not he is such a member) or would be so eligible but for a relevant disqualification,
and in the following provisions of these Regulations “person” shall be construed accordingly.
(2) Where an additional requirement is specified in any provision of Parts II to IX in relation to a person, that provision does not apply in relation to him unless he satisfies that additional requirement.