Statutory Rule 1992 No. 547

      Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992


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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

1992 No. 547

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

Made 16th December 1992
Coming into operation 1st March 1993


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

PART A
PRELIMINARY
A1.  Citation and commencement
A2.  Interpretation
PART B
PENSIONABLE EMPLOYMENT
B1.  Pensionable employees
B2.  Opting into pensionable employment
B3.  Opting out of pensionable employment
B4.  Rejoining pensionable employment
B5.  Power to admit employees of other bodies
B6.  Treatment of certain additional duties
B7.  Treatment of certain separate employments
B8.  Deemed employments
PART C
PAYMENTS BY EMPLOYEES
C1.  Payment and amount of employee's contributions
C2.  Leave of absence from duty
C3.  Absence due to trade dispute
C4.  Lump sum payment to increase reckonable service
C5.  Periodical payments to increase reckonable service
C6.  Additional payments by certain pensionable employees in respect of previous service
C7.  Additional payments in respect of previous part-time service
C8.  Discontinuance of periodical payments in certain cases
C9.  Payments to avoid reduction of retiring allowance and death grant
C10.  Continuation of certain payments
C11.  Further additional contributions
C12.  Effect of opting out of pensionable employment on certain additional payments
C13.  Statement of remuneration received otherwise than from employing authority
C14.  Deduction and recovery of employee's contributions
C15.  Return of employee's contributions in certain cases
C16.  Effect of return to local government on right to a return of contributions
C17.  Reduction of returned contributions following payment in lieu of contributions
C18.  Limitation of payments
PART D
SERVICE
D1.  Reckonable service
D2.  Qualifying service
D3.  Exclusion from reckonable service and qualifying service
D4.  Increase of reckonable service on lump sum payment
D5.  Increase of reckonable service on making periodical payments
D6.  Increase of reckonable service on completion or cessation of payments under former regulations
D7.  Increase of reckonable service at discretion of employing authority
D8.  Reduction of added years reckonable on payment as reckonable service
D9.  Previous service of certain pensionable employees
D10.  Previous service of certain variable-time employees
D11.  Previous service of certain re-employed pensioners
D12.  Previous service of part-time employees
D13.  Increase of reckonable service of part-time employees
D14.  Intervals in service due to illness or injury
PART E
BENEFITS
E1.  Guaranteed minimum pension for certain pensionable employees and their widows or widowers
E2.  Entitlement to retirement pension and retiring allowance
E3.  Amount of retirement pension and retiring allowance
E4.  Ill-health retirement grant
E5.  Entitlement to widow's short-term and long-term pensions
E6.  Amounts of widow's short-term and long-term pensions
E7.  Widow's special short-term pension
E8.  Entitlement to children's short-term and long-term pensions
E9.  Amounts of children's short-term and long-term pensions
E10.  Children's special short-term pension
E11.  Death grant
E12.  Pensions of widowers, etc.
E13.  Reduction of retirement pension in the case of certain re-employed pensioners
E14.  Combined benefits in the case of certain re-employed pensioners
E15.  Separate benefits in the case of certain re-employed pensioners
E16.  Adjustment of superannuation rights on death of certain re-employed pensioners
E17.  Surrender of part of retirement pension
E18.  Power to compound certain small pensions
E19.  Pensionable remuneration
E20.  Pay restraint not to affect pensionable remuneration in certain cases
E21.  Certificates as to reduction in remuneration
E22.  Calculation of part-time service
E23.  Counting of non-contributing service
E24.  Disregard of certain reckonable service in determining entitlement to benefits
E25.  Counting of certain reckonable service and non-contributing service in determining entitlement to benefits
E26.  Disregard of certain reckonable service in calculating amount of benefits
E27.  Counting of certain reckonable service in calculating amount of benefits
E28.  National Insurance
E29.  Benefits not assignable
E30.  Interest on late payment of certain benefits
E31.  Increase in certain benefits already payable
E32.  Entitlement to benefits where a person has given a notification in accordance with regulation B3
PART F
WAR SERVICE
F1.  Interpretation, etc.
F2.  War service
F3.  Election as to war service
F4.  Modified application of regulation F3 in certain cases
F5.  Notice of election
F6.  Reckonable service and benefits
F7.  Revision of certain elections
PART G
MODIFICATIONS IN SPECIAL CASES
G1.  Application to existing officers
G2.  Special provisions for the reckoning by existing officers as service of certain kinds of employment prior to 1st April 1950
G3.  Added years in the case of certain existing officers
G4.  Application to certain female nurses, physiotherapists, midwives and health visitors
G5.  Power to agree notional remuneration
PART J
INTERCHANGE, ETC.
J1.  Interpretation
J2.  Outwards transfers
J3.  Additional transfer value on outwards transfer in certain cases
J4.  Amount of transfer value, etc.
J5.  Termination of right to payment out of the fund
J6.  Rights where a person transfers to the Communities' scheme and leaves without a right to either an immediate or prospective pension
J7.  Compound interest on certain sums
J8.  Inward transfers
J9.  Right to reckon service
J10.  Increase in return of contributions
J11.  National Insurance modification for flat-rate retirement pension
J12.  National Insurance modification for graduated retirement pension
J13.  Certain persons who become subject to other superannuation schemes
J14.  Transfer of pension rights
J15.  Revaluation of guaranteed minimum in certain cases
PART L
INJURY ALLOWANCES, ETC.
L1.  Interpretation
L2.  Persons to whom Part L applies
L3.  Loss of employment through permanent incapacity
L4.  Reduction in remuneration
L5.  Allowances for pensioners
L6.  Death benefits
L7.  The relevant body
L8.  Rights and payments to be taken into account in determining amount of benefit
L9.  Retrospective effect
L10.  Finance
L11.  Notice of decisions
PART M
FORFEITURE, ETC.
M1.  Forfeiture of rights
M2.  Transfer of certain sums from the fund
M3.  Recovery or retention by employing authority of certain sums from the fund
PART N
DECISIONS AND APPEALS
N1.  Initial decisions
N2.  Decisions by employing authorities as to status of employees
N3.  Decisions by the Committee as to status of employees
N4.  Decisions by the Committee as to war service
N5.  Decisions by the Committee as to entitlement to benefits
N6.  Decisions by the Committee as to amount of benefits
N7.  Notification of decisions
N8.  Appeals
PART P
ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
P1.  Constitution and powers of the Committee
P2.  Management of the fund
P3.  Use and investment of fund's moneys
P4.  Accounts, audit and annual report
P5.  Periodical valuation of fund
P6.  Actuary's certificates
P7.  Employer's contributions
P8.  Employer's additional contributions
P9.  Employer's further payments
P10.  Payments by employing authorities to the Committee
P11.  Extra charges resulting from early retirement
P12.  Pensions Order payments
PART R
MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES OF AUTHORITIES
R1.  Information to be supplied by certain employees
R2.  Records to be kept by authorities
R3.  Transmission of documents and information
R4.  Payments due in respect of deceased persons
R5.  Pensions Order premiums
PART S
MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL
S1.  Periods of time
S2.  Application to benefits in respect of former employments
S3.  Revocations

SCHEDULES

  SCHEDULE 1  — Glossary of expressions

  SCHEDULE 2  — Pensionable employees
  PART I — Scheduled body
 
  PART II — Whole-time pensionable employees employed in a manual capacity
 
  PART III — Persons employed in a qualifying part-time employment
 

  SCHEDULE 3  — Maximum length of additional periods

  SCHEDULE 4  — Amount to be paid for additional period
  PART I — Lump sum payment
 
  PART II — Periodical payments
 

  SCHEDULE 5  — Payment to avoid reduction of retiring allowance
  PART I — Lump sum payment
 
  PART II — Instalments
 
  PART III — Additional contributions
 
  PART IV — Uncompleted payments
 

  SCHEDULE 6  — Further additional contributions

  SCHEDULE 7  — Limitation of payments under Part C

  SCHEDULE 8  — Uncompleted payment of additional contributions

  SCHEDULE 9  — Additional reckonable service for ill-health

  SCHEDULE 10  — Payment for additional reckonable service of part-time employees
  PART I — Amount to be paid for additional period
 
  PART II — Calculation of additional period
 

  SCHEDULE 11  — Reduction of benefits on early payment

  SCHEDULE 12  — Surrender of part of retirement pension
  PART I — Limits on amount surrendered
 
  PART II — Procedure
 

  SCHEDULE 13  — Women's Services
 

  SCHEDULE 14  — Public Service Schemes
  PART I—
 
  PART II —
 
  PART III —
 

  SCHEDULE 15  — Modifications to the regulations in their application to special cases
  PART I — Existing officers
 
  PART II — Certain female nurses, physiotherapists, midwives and health visitors
 

  SCHEDULE 16  — Calculation of transfer values
  PART I —
 
  PART II —
 
  PART III —
 
  PART IV —
 
  PART V —
 

  SCHEDULE 17  — Calculation of reckonable service to be credited under regulation J9(1)(a)

  SCHEDULE 18  — Fund apportionment where 100 or more transfer their pension rights under regulation J14
  PART I—
 
  PART II —
 

  SCHEDULE 19  — Bodies to certain of whose employees Part L applies
 

  SCHEDULE 20  — The Committee
  PART I — Constitution of the Committee
 
  PART II — Powers of the Committee
 
  PART III — Expenses and allowances payable by the Committee
 

  SCHEDULE 21 —  Revocations
 

 

Explanatory Note


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