Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 218

The Local Government Pension Scheme (London Boroughs Children's Regional Planning Committee) Regulations 1997

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Power to increase period of membership on termination of employment on redundancy etc
     3 . Regulation B18 of the principal Regulations[3] shall be amended - 

(a) in paragraph (5), by substituting for the words "before 1st April 1996" the following - 

"  - 
(i) where the relevant employing authority is the Commission for New Towns or an urban development corporation, before 1st April 1996; and

(ii) where the relevant employing authority is the London Boroughs Children's Regional Planning Committee, before the dissolution of that committee."; and



(b) in paragraph (9), by adding - 



" (c) the London Boroughs Children's Regional Planning Committee which in these Regulations means the joint committee established on 8th December 1983 by the thirty two London Boroughs and the City of London Corporation pursuant to section 31 of the Child Care Act 1980[4] and sections 101 and 102 of the Local Government Act 1972[5]."

Valuations of pension fund
     4 .  - (1) The London Borough of Camden shall obtain an actuarial valuation of the liabilities as at 1st January 1997 of the London Boroughs Children's Regional Planning Committee ("the Committee") as respects the pension fund maintained by the London Borough of Camden and shall send copies of it to the Committee and to the Secretary of State as soon as is reasonably practicable.

    (2) As soon as is reasonably practicable after the London Borough of Camden have obtained such a valuation, they shall obtain an actuary's certificate specifying the sum to be paid by the Committee in respect of its liabilities (if any) to the pension fund (excluding any sums payable or to be payable by the Committee under regulation L13 (3A))[6] in respect of the pensions payable by, and other liabilities of, the fund in respect of former employees of the Committee and those persons who, under the principal Regulations, are or may become entitled to benefit through them.

    (3) The Committee shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after production of such actuary's certificate, pay to the pension fund maintained by the London Borough of Camden the sum specified in such certificate as the amount due from the Committee and, upon that being done, the Committee shall have no liability to make any further payments to the pension fund (except for any outstanding liability for payments under regulation L13 (3A)).

Elections
     5 .  - (1) Where - 

(a) apart from this regulation, the amendments made by regulation 3 would place any person in a worse position than he would otherwise be, and

(b) that person so elects by notice in writing given to the London Borough of Camden within the period of six months beginning with the date on which any relevant resolution under regulation B18 or any resolution under regulation B19 of the principal Regulations is passed in relation to him,

then the principal Regulations shall have effect in relation to him as if those amendments had never been made.

    (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a resolution under B18 of the principal Regulations is a relevant resolution if the person in respect of whom it is passed ceased to hold his employment before the commencement date.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Paul Beresford
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment

3rd February 1997

[2] S.I. 1995/1019, amended by S.I. 1995/1985, 2249, 2953, 1996/185, 711, 1428, 2180. back

[3] Regulations B18 and B19 were added to the principal Regulations by S.I. 1995/2953. back

[4] 1980 c. 5. back

[5] 1972 c. 70. back

[6] Regulation L13 (3A) was added to the principal Regulations by S.I. 1995/2953. back