Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/cy/nisr/2014/188/schedules/made
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“the 1971 Act” means the Pensions (Increase) (Northern Ireland) Act 1971(1)
“the 1972 Order” means the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(2);
“the 1995 Order” means the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(4);
“the 1999 Act” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999(6);
“the 1999 Order” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999(7);
“the 2002 Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(8);
“the 2004 Finance Act” means the Finance Act 2004(9);
“the 2004 Pensions Act” means the Pensions Act 2004(10);
“the 2008 Act” means the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008(11);
“the 2009 Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009(12), the Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009(13), and the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009(14);
“active member” means a person who is in an employment, and is—
paying contributions to the Scheme;
treated as paying contributions to the Scheme; or
absent from that employment for one of the reasons mentioned in regulation 13 (contributions during absence from work) and entitled to pay contributions to the Scheme;
“additional maternity or adoption leave” means leave under Article 105 or 107B of the 1996 Order;
“additional paternity leave” means leave under the Additional Paternity Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010(15);
“admission agreement” means an agreement between the Committee and an admission body that named individuals, or all or any specified class of the admission body’s employees, may be members of the Scheme;
“admission agreement fund” means a fund established in accordance with regulation 61(2);
“admission body” has the meaning given to that expression at paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 (admission agreements with admission bodies) to these Regulations;
“amount of pension payable” means the earned and additional pension in a member’s pension account adjusted to take account of any revaluation adjustment, index rate adjustment, commutation amount or pension account adjustment applicable;
“annual allowance charge” has the meaning given to that expression by section 227 of the 2004 Finance Act;
“assumed pensionable pay” has the meaning given by regulation 23;
“automatic enrolment date” means the automatic enrolment date within the meaning of section 3 of the 2008 Act;
“automatic re-enrolment date” means the automatic re-enrolment date chosen by a member’s employing authority in accordance with section 5 of the 2008 Act and regulation 12 of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 for those of its eligible jobholders who are not active members of the Scheme (or the date the employing authority would have chosen if the employing authority does not have any such employees);
“AVCs” means payment of additional voluntary contributions made under regulation 19;
“benefit crystallisation event” has the meaning given by section 7 of the 2004 Finance Act;
paternity leave; or
additional paternity leave during which the member receives some pensionable pay;
“children’s pension” means a pension payable to an eligible child in accordance with regulations 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54 or 55;
“the Committee” means the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers’ Superannuation Committee established under section 1 of the Local Government (Superannuation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1950(16);
“commutation amount” means the amount of pension a member has elected to give up in return for a lump sum, in accordance with regulation 34;
“contributing body” means an employing authority, an admission body or a body which is responsible for liabilities under the Scheme, whether pursuant to legislation, pursuant to an agreement with the Committee or pursuant to a statutory transfer or by any other means whatsoever;
“councillor” means a member of a new council or a member of an existing council;
“councillor membership” means any period of membership which counts in respect of service as a member of a council and not other local government employment;
“deferred member” has the meaning given by regulation 8;
“deferred payment enhancement” means the amount by which a member’s entitlement to retirement pension is increased on account of late payment, in accordance with regulation 31(4) or (11);
“dependent”, in relation to a person, means that in the opinion of the Committee, at the date of the member’s death—
the person was dependent on the member because of physical or mental impairment;
“early payment reduction” means the amount by which a member’s entitlement is reduced pursuant to regulation 31(5), (6) or (12);
“earned pension” means pension accrued from the member’s pensionable pay pursuant to regulation 25(4) or 25(5), or credited pursuant to regulation 113(1) (effect of acceptance of transfer value payment);
a natural or adopted child of a member who meets any of conditions A to C and who was born before, on, or in the case of a natural child, within twelve months of the member’s death; or
was dependent on the member at the date of death.
Condition B is that the person is in full-time education or vocational training and has not reached the age of twenty-three (but the Committee may continue to treat a person as fulfilling Condition B notwithstanding any break in a course of education or vocational training, although the person does not fulfil Condition B during such a break).
has not reached the age of twenty-three; or
the impairment is in the opinion of an IRMP likely to be permanent and the person was dependent on the member at the date of the member’s death because of that physical or mental impairment.
“employing authority” means a body employing an employee who is eligible to be a member or is a local authority as defined in Article 2 of the 1972 Order;
“employing authority’s consent” includes the consent of the Committee in circumstances where the member’s employer or former employer is no longer an employing authority;
“European Pensions Institution” has the same meaning as in Article 269(8) of the Pensions Order (Northern Ireland) 2005(17);
“existing council” means a district council constituted under section 1 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972(18) as in force immediately prior to the making of the Local Government (Boundaries) (2008 Act) (Commencement, Transitional Provision and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013(19);
“former regulations” means the 2009 Regulations, the 2002 Regulations, the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(20), or as the circumstances require, the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(21), the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981(22), the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1962(23) or the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1950(24) and shall be deemed also, in the case of a member who immediately before 1st April 1973 was subject to the Belfast Corporation Superannuation Scheme to include the provisions of that Scheme;
“the fund” means a superannuation fund established under the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1950;
“gainful employment” means paid employment for not less than thirty hours in each week for a period of not less than twelve months;
“guarantor” means a person which is not an inheriting employer and which has agreed in accordance with regulation 71 to accept responsibility for some or all of the liabilities of the Scheme attributable to an original employer;
“index rate adjustment” means the percentage increase that would apply if the balance in the member’s pension account were a pension in payment eligible for increase under the 1971 Act;
“inheriting employer” means an employing authority which employs active members at the date at which the original employer withdraws from the Scheme and which has agreed in accordance with Regulation 71 to accept responsibility for some or all of the liabilities of an original employer towards the Scheme;
“inherited liabilities” has the meaning given to it in regulation 70 or 71 as applicable;
holds a diploma in occupational health medicine (D Occ Med) or an equivalent qualification issued by a competent authority in an EEA state; and for the purposes of this definition, “competent authority” has the meaning given by section 55(1) of the Medical Act 1983(25); or
“joint liability amount” has the meaning given to that expression by section 237B(3) of the 2004 Finance Act;
“liabilities” means, where it occurs in regulations 61 (the fund and the admission agreement fund), 68 (actuarial valuations and certificates), 70 (special circumstances where revised actuarial valuations and certificates shall be obtained) and 71 (apportionment of liabilities), the liabilities attributable to any employing authority or admission body by virtue of its participation in the Scheme whether it employs active members or not and these include not only liabilities which are directly attributable to its current or former employees but also any liabilities for which the employing authority or admission body is otherwise responsible;
“local government employment” means an employment by virtue of which the person employed is or has been a member of the Scheme;
“membership” is to be construed in accordance with Article 121(1) of the 1995 Order;
“new council” means a district council constituted under section 1 (district councils) of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972(26) as amended by section 3(1) of the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008(27);
“nominated co-habiting partner” has the meaning given by regulation 42;
“normal pension age” means the pensionable age of a person as specified from time to time in Schedule 2 to the 1995 Order, or if higher, 65;
“occupational pension scheme” has the meaning given by section 150(5) of the 2004 Finance Act;
“ordinary adoption leave” means leave under Article 107A of the 1996 Order;
“ordinary maternity leave” means leave under Article 103 of the 1996 Order;
“original employer” means an employing authority in respect of whom an apportionment agreement under regulation 71 has been made so that an inheriting employer or guarantor has assumed to accept responsibility for some or all of the liabilities previously attributable to that employing authority;
“partner” in relation to an active member means a spouse, civil partner or nominated co-habiting partner;
“paternity leave” means leave under regulation 4 or 8 of the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(28);
“payment period” means a period of employment to which an employee’s wages or salary payments relate;
“pension account” means an account of the description in regulation 24;
“pension credit member” has the meaning given by regulation 10(1) (pension credit and survivor members);
“pension fund” refers to the fund or, where applicable the admission agreement fund;
“pension sharing order” means an order or provision by virtue of which Article 26 of the 1999 Order or section 29 of the 1999 Act takes effect;
“pensionable age” has the meaning given in section 176 of the 1993 Act;
“pensionable pay” has the meaning given by regulation 22 but if the circumstances specified in regulation 23(2) apply, references in these Regulations to a member’s pensionable pay are references to that member’s assumed pensionable pay;
“pensioner member” has the meaning given by regulation 9(1);
“Pensions Regulator” means the body corporate established under section 1 of the 2004 Pensions Act;
“permanently incapable” means that the member will, more likely than not, be incapable until at the earliest, the member’s normal pension age;
“public service pension scheme” means has the same meaning as in section 150(3) of the 2004 Finance Act;
“qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme” has the same meaning as in section 169(2) of the 2004 Finance Act;
“qualifying service for a period of two years” has the meaning given in regulation 3(5);
have permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000(29) to accept deposits;
quote a base rate in sterling;
and for the purposes of this definition, the size of the person at any time is to be determined by reference to the gross assets denominated in sterling of that person, together with any subsidiary (as defined in section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006(30), or before the commencement of section 1159, as defined by Article 4 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(31), as shown in the audited end-of-year accounts last published before that time, and this definition shall be read with—
section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000(32);
“registered pension scheme” has the same meaning as in section 150(2) of the 2004 Finance Act;
“reserve forces service leave” means absence from duty because of being called out or recalled for permanent service in Her Majesty’s armed forces pursuant to a call-out notice served, or a call-out or recall order made, under the Reserve Forces Act 1996(33);
“revaluation adjustment” means the consumer prices index of annual inflation published by the Office of National Statistics for the September preceding the end of a Scheme year which is to be applied to the sum in a pension account at the beginning of the next Scheme year;
“the Scheme” means the occupational pension scheme constituted by these Regulations and the Transitional Regulations;
“Scheme manager” has the meaning given by regulation 2(2));
“Scheme pays election” means a member giving the Committee notice of joint and several liability under section 237B of the 2004 Finance Act in respect of the member’s annual allowance charge;
“service” means service or employment with an employing authority, and service rendered by an employee of an employing authority whose services are placed at the disposal of a Minister of the Crown or a Government department in pursuance of any enactment is to be treated as service with an employing authority;
“shareable rights” has the same meaning as in Article 24(2) (scope of mechanism) of the 1999 Order or under section 27(2) of the 1999 Act;
“shared cost additional voluntary contribution arrangement” means an arrangement established under regulation 19 to which both the employing authority and the active member contribute;
“statutory pay” means any statutory maternity, paternity or adoption pay payable under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(34);
“survivor member” has the meaning given by regulation 10(2);
“survivor pension” means a pension payable under regulations 41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54 or 55;
“Tier 1 benefits” has the meaning given by regulation 36(4) calculated in accordance with regulation 39;
“Tier 2 benefits” has the meaning given by regulation 36(5) calculated in accordance with regulation 39;
“total membership” means the aggregate of periods of membership which count as such under regulation 3;
“trade dispute” has the meaning given in Article 127 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(35);
“transfer value payment” means a payment made from the Scheme to another registered pension scheme or qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme, or a payment received by the Scheme from a registered pension scheme or from a European Pensions Institution; and
“Transitional Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014(36).
SCHEDULE 2ADMISSION AGREEMENTS WITH ADMISSION BODIES
PART 1Admission Bodies
1. Subject to the requirements of regulations 3(1)(b) (active membership, employed by an admission body) and 5 (employees of admission bodies) and this Schedule the Committee may make an admission agreement with any admission body.
2.—(1) An admission body is—
(i)has sufficient links with an employing authority for the body and the employing authority to be regarded as having a community of interest whether because the operations of the body are dependent on the operations of the employing authority or otherwise; or
(ii)is approved by the Department for the purpose of admission to the Scheme.
(b)a body, to the funds of which any employing authority contributes;
(f)the managers of a voluntary school within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(37);
(g)the governing body of an institution of further education within the meaning of the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(38); and
(h)a body that is providing or will provide—
(i)a service or assets in connection with the exercise of a function of an employing authority as a result of the transfer of the service or assets by means of a contract or other arrangement; or
(ii)a public service and which is approved by the Department for the purposes of admission to the Scheme.
4. In the case of an admission agreement with an admission body under paragraph 2(1)(h)(i) of this Part of this Schedule, the employing authority, if it is not also the Committee, shall be a party to the admission agreement.
5. Where, at the date that an admission agreement is made with a body mentioned in paragraph 2(1)(b) of this Part of this Schedule, the funding contributions paid to the body by one or more employing authorities equal in total 50% or less of the total amount it receives from all sources, it shall be a term of that admission agreement that the employing authority which provides the funding (or, if more than one, all of them) guarantees the liability of the body to pay all amounts due from it under the Scheme.
6. Where an admission body under paragraph 2(1)(h)(i) of this Part of this Schedule is exercising the functions of an employing authority in connection with more than one contract or other arrangement under that paragraph, the Committee and the admission body shall enter into a separate admission agreement in respect of each contract or arrangement.
7. This paragraph applies where an admission body under paragraph 2(1)(h) of this Part of this Schedule undertakes to meet the relevant requirements of regulation 3(1)(b) (active membership, employed by an admission body) and this Schedule, and—
(a)in the case of a body under paragraph 2(1)(h)(i) of this Part of this Schedule, the employing authority undertakes to meet the requirements of this paragraph; or
(b)in the case of a body under paragraph 2(1)(h)(ii) of this Part of this Schedule, the Department approves the body for admission to the Scheme and the conditions, if any, to which the approval is subject, have been met.
8. Where paragraph 7 of this Part of this Schedule applies—
(a)the Committee shall admit to the Scheme the eligible employees of the admission body specified by the body; and
(b)where it does so, the terms on which it does so are the admission agreement for the purposes of the Scheme.
9. Only those employees of the admission body who are employed in connection with the provision of a service or assets mentioned in paragraph 2(1)(h) of this Part of this Schedule are eligible to be designated, under regulation 3(1)(b) (active membership, employed by an admission body), members of the Scheme.
PART 2Admission Agreements
2. Subject to paragraph 3 of this Part of this Schedule, the admission agreement shall further provide that where the level of risk identified by the assessment is such as to require it, an admission body shall enter into an indemnity or bond in an approved form with—
(a)a person who has permission under Part 4A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000(39) to accept deposits or to effect and carry out contracts of general insurance;
(b)an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(b) and 5(d) of Schedule 3 to that Act(40), which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule(41)) to accept deposits or to effect and carry out contracts of general insurance; or
3. Where, for any reason, it is not desirable for an admission body to enter into an indemnity or bond, the admission agreement shall provide that the admission body secures a guarantee, in a form satisfactory to the Committee, from—
(a)a person, or persons, who funds the admission body in whole or in part;
(b)in the case of an admission body falling within the description in paragraph 2(1)(h)(i) of Part 1 of this Schedule, the employing authority referred to in that paragraph;
(d)the Department, in the case of an admission body—
(i)which is established by or under any enactment, and
(ii)where that enactment enables the Department to make financial provision for that admission body.
5. An admission agreement shall include—
(a)(i)provision for it to terminate immediately if the admission body ceases to be such a body; and
(ii)any such other provisions about its termination as the parties consider appropriate;
(b)a requirement that the admission body notify the Committee as soon as reasonably practicable of any matter that may affect, or is likely to affect, its participation in the Scheme;
(c)a requirement that the admission body notify the Committee immediately of any actual or proposed change in its status which may give rise to a termination, including take-over, reconstruction or amalgamation, insolvency, winding up, receivership or liquidation or a material change to the body’s business or constitution; and
(d)a right for the Committee to terminate the agreement in the event of—
(ii)a breach by the admission body of any of its obligations under the admission agreement, or these Regulations, which has not been remedied within a reasonable time; or
(iii)a failure by the admission body to pay any sums due to the pension fund within a reasonable period after receipt of a notice from the Committee requiring it to do so.
7. An admission agreement shall include an undertaking from the admission body that it will promptly notify the Committee in writing of any material change in the terms and conditions of employment which affect entitlement to benefits under the Scheme for its employees who are members and of any terminations of employment by virtue of redundancy or in the interests of efficiency.
8. An admission agreement shall include a requirement that the admission body notifies the Committee of each occasion on which it exercises a discretion under these Regulations or the Transitional Regulations and the manner in which it exercises that discretion.
9. An admission agreement shall include a requirement that the admission body will not do anything to prejudice the status of the Scheme as a registered scheme.
10. When the Committee makes an admission agreement, it shall promptly inform the Department of—
(b)that admission body’s name; and
(c)in the case of an agreement with an admission body under paragraph 2(1)(h)(i) of Part 1 of this Schedule, the name of the relevant employing authority.
11. Where an admission body is such a body by virtue of paragraph 2(1)(h) of Part 1 of this Schedule, an admission agreement shall include—
(a)a requirement that only employees of the body who are employed in connection with the provision of the service or assets referred to in that paragraph may be members of the Scheme;
(b)details of the contract or other arrangement by which the body met the requirements of that paragraph;
(c)a provision whereby the employing authority referred to in that paragraph may set off against any payments due to the admission body, an amount equal to any overdue employer and employee contributions and other payments (including interest) due from the admission body under these Regulations;
(d)a provision requiring the employing authority to keep under assessment the level of risk arising as a result of the matters mentioned in paragraph 1 of this Part of this Schedule;
(e)a provision requiring copies of notifications due to the Committee under paragraphs 4(b), 4(c) or 10(a) of this Part of this Schedule to be given to the employing authority referred to in paragraph 2(1)(h) of Part 1 of this Schedule; and
(f)a provision requiring the employing authority referred to in that paragraph to make a copy of the admission agreement available for public inspection at its offices.
12. The Committee and an admission body may make an admission agreement despite the fact they do not exercise their functions or provide services or assets in areas that overlap or adjoin each other.
13. A body designated under the provisions of the Local Government (Superannuation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1950(42) shall be deemed to have an admission agreement under regulation 5 (employees of admission bodies) and this Schedule for so long as that body continues to employ active members of the Scheme.
14. Any question which may arise between the parties to an admission agreement relating to the construction of the agreement or the rights and obligations under that agreement shall be referred to the Department in writing for determination.
15. In this Schedule “indemnity or bond in an approved form” means an indemnity or bond, payable to the pension fund, to meet a level of risk exposure arising on insolvency, winding up or liquidation of the admission body, actuarially assessed to the satisfaction of the Committee and employing authority in the case of an admission body under paragraph 2(1)(h) of Part 1 of this Schedule.
SCHEDULE 3THE COMMITTEE: PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
(b)two members as appears to the Minister to be appropriate;
(c)five members appointed after consultation with such organisations as may be recognised by the Minister as representative of employing authorities; and
(d)five members appointed after consultation with such organisations as may be recognised by the Minister as representative of employees affected by the Scheme.
2.—(1) Subject to the provisions in sub-paragraph (2) and paragraph 5, the term of office of a member of the Committee (“Committee member”) shall be four years from the date of that Committee member’s appointment.
(2) The Minister may extend the term of office of a Committee member or the chairperson of the Committee by a maximum period of eighteen months.
3. The quorum of the Committee shall be six, or such other number as the Committee may, with the approval of the Department, determine.
4. The Committee may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its numbers so long as the number of vacancies does not exceed the number of remaining Committee members.
5. A casual vacancy occurring in the membership of the Committee shall be filled by the Minister after consultation with the Committee, and a person so appointed shall hold office for the residue of the term of the Committee member in whose place that person was appointed.
6. A Committee member may resign that Committee member’s membership by giving notice in writing, signed by the Committee member, to the Minister.
8. A Committee member on vacating office at the expiry of the term thereof shall (subject to the foregoing provisions of this Schedule) be eligible for re-appointment.
9. No defect in the appointment of any person acting as a Committee member shall vitiate any proceedings of the Committee in which that person has taken part.
1. The Committee, which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, and with the capacity to acquire and hold land, shall subject to paragraphs 2 to 8 of Part 1 of this Schedule, perform such functions as may be assigned to it by these Regulations and the Transitional Regulations.
2. The Committee may appoint a sub-committee or an officer employed by the Committee to discharge, with or without restrictions or conditions as the Committee thinks fit, any of the functions assigned to the Committee by the Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(43), or these Regulations and the Transitional Regulations.
4. A sub-committee appointed under paragraph 2 of this Part of this Schedule shall consist of Committee members and may include officers of the Committee appointed under paragraphs 11 and 12 of this Part of this Schedule.
5. A sub-committee or an officer appointed under paragraph 2 of this Part of this Schedule shall report to the Committee at each of its meetings setting out all actions taken under such appointment.
6. The Committee may revoke any appointment made under paragraph 2 of this Part of this Schedule, or any restriction or condition imposed under paragraph 2 of this Part of this Schedule or anything fixed under paragraph 3 of this Part of this Schedule.
7. Any arrangements made by the Committee for the discharge of its functions specified in the Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 or these Regulations and the Transitional Regulations, by a sub-committee or officer shall not prevent the Committee from exercising those functions.
8. The seal of the Committee shall be authenticated by the signature—
(a)of any Committee member; or
9. Every document purporting to be an instrument issued by the Committee and to be sealed with the seal of the Committee authenticated in the manner provided by paragraph 8 of this Part of this Schedule, or to be signed by the secretary or any person authorised to act in that behalf, shall be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, shall be deemed to be such instrument without further proof.
10. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations and the Transitional Regulations the Committee shall have the power to regulate its own procedures.
(b)Deputy Secretary to the Committee; and
13.—(1) The Committee may make arrangements with any employing authority, admission body, Government department, district council or the Regional Health and Social Care Board, for the exercise of any pension function by the Committee on behalf of any employing authority, admission body, Government department, district council or the Regional Health and Social Care Board on such terms as may be provided for by the arrangements.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, “the Regional Health and Social Care Board” means the Regional Health and Social Care Board established under section 7 of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009(44).
14. Section 18(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(45) shall apply to any appointment made by virtue of paragraph 11 or 12 of this Part of this Schedule as if each of these paragraphs was an enactment referred to in that section but a person shall not be removed from any office mentioned in paragraph 11 of this Part of this Schedule without the written concurrence of the Department.
PART 3Expense and Allowances Payable by the Committee
1. The expenses of the Committee, including payments in respect of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Committee members in connection with the discharge of their duties as such, shall be defrayed out of the pension fund.
2. The Committee may, with the approval of the Department, in addition to any payment made under paragraph 1 of this Part of this Schedule, pay to the Chairperson of the Committee such allowance as it considers to be reasonable.
3.—(1) The Committee may, with the approval of the Department, pay to a Committee member an allowance, in addition to any payments made under paragraph 1 of this Part of this Schedule.
(2) Such allowance shall not exceed the amount as the Department may from time to time determine under section 36 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972(46).
(4) A claim shall be made to the Secretary of the Committee in such form as the Committee may direct and shall include a declaration that the Committee member—
4. A claim for an allowance shall be submitted to the Committee within one month, or such longer period as the Committee may in exceptional circumstances allow, from the date of the approved duty in respect of which the allowance is claimed.
5. In this Part of this Schedule, “approved duty” means attendance at a meeting of the Committee or of any sub-committee thereof or the doing of anything approved by the Committee for the purpose of, or in connection with, the discharge of the functions of the Committee.
SCHEDULE 4COUNCILLOR MEMBERS
PART 1Contributions
1. Delete regulation 12 (temporary reduction in contributions).
2. In regulation 19 (additional voluntary contributions)—
(a)in paragraph (1), delete “or contribute to shared cost additional voluntary contribution arrangements (“SCAVCs”)”; and
(b)where it occurs, delete “or SCAVCs”.
3. Delete regulation 21(1)(d) (exclusion of rights to return of contributions).
4. For regulation 22 (meaning of “pensionable pay”) substitute—
“22.—(1) A councillor member’s pensionable pay in any year is the total of all basic allowance and special responsibility allowance paid to that councillor member by a district council under the Local Government (Payments to Councillors) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012(47).
(2) ”Basic allowance” and “special responsibility allowance” have the same meaning as in regulations 4 and 5 respectively of the Local Government (Payments to Councillors) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012.
(3) All references to “pay” in these Regulations in respect of a councillor member and the councillor membership shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (1).”.
5. In regulation 23 (assumed pensionable pay)—
(a)in paragraph (1), replace “an active” with “a councillor”;
(b)in paragraphs (1) and (5), insert “councillor” before “member’s”;
(c)in paragraphs (2) to (6), where it occurs, replace “member” with “councillor member”; and
(d)in paragraph (5), replace “employer” with “district council”.
PART 2Pension Accounts
1. Regulation 24(5), 24(7), 24(8) and 24(10) (pension accounts), shall only apply to a councillor member in respect of any councillor membership where both the former membership and the membership as an active member referred to in those paragraphs are councillor membership.
2. Delete regulations 24(6), 24(9) (pension accounts).
PART 3Benefits
1. Delete regulations 31(6) to (7) (retirement benefits: flexible retirement and redundancy).
PART 4Ill-health Retirement
1. For regulation 36 (early payment of retirement pension on ill-health grounds: active members) substitute—
“36.—(1) Where a councillor member who has qualifying service for a period of two years or more ceases to be a member of the councillor member’s district council on the grounds that—
(a)the councillor member’s ill-health or infirmity of mind or body renders the councillor member permanently incapable of discharging efficiently any gainful employment; and
(b)the councillor member, as a result of ill-health or infirmity of mind or body, has a reduced likelihood of being capable of undertaking any gainful employment, whether in local government or otherwise, before reaching normal pension age,
the Committee may, at the request of the employing authority, determine that the councillor member’s retirement pension comes into payment before the councillor member’s normal pension age in accordance with this regulation.
(2) If a councillor member satisfies the conditions in paragraphs 36(1)(a) and 36(1)(b) then the councillor member shall take early payment of a retirement pension.
(3) The amount of the retirement pension that a councillor member who satisfies the conditions mentioned in paragraphs 36(1)(a) and 36(1)(b) receives is determined by which of the benefit tiers specified in paragraphs 36(4) and 36(5) that councillor member qualifies for, calculated in accordance with regulation 39 (calculation of ill-health pension amounts).
(4) A councillor member is entitled to Tier 1 benefits if that councillor member is unlikely to be capable of undertaking any gainful employment before normal pension age.
(5) A councillor member is entitled to Tier 2 benefits if that councillor member—
(6) Before determining whether a councillor who has ceased to be a member of a district council is entitled to a benefit under this regulation, the Committee shall obtain a certificate, in accordance with regulation 38 (role of the IRMP), from an IRMP qualified in occupational health medicine who is appointed by the Committee.”
2. For regulation 37 (early payment of retirement pension on ill-health grounds: deferred members) substitute—
“37.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if a councillor member who has ceased to be a member of a council before the councillor member is entitled to the immediate payment of retirement benefits (apart from under this regulation) becomes permanently incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of that office because of ill-health or infirmity of mind or body the councillor member may make a written request to the Committee to receive payment of retirement benefits immediately, whatever the councillor member’s age, provided the councillor member has total membership of at least two years.
(2) Before determining whether to agree to a request under paragraph (1), the Committee shall obtain a certificate from the IRMP, appointed under regulation 38, as to whether in the IRMP’s opinion the councillor member is permanently incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of that office because of ill-health or infirmity of mind or body and, if so, whether the councillor member has a reduced likelihood of being capable of undertaking any gainful employment (whether in local government or otherwise) before reaching normal pension age.”.
3. For regulation 38 (Role of the IRMP) substitute—
“38.—(1) A decision as to whether a councillor member who has ceased to be a member of the councillor member’s district council is entitled to early payment of retirement pension under regulation 36 (early payment of retirement pension on ill-health grounds: active members), shall be made by the Committee after it has obtained a certificate from an IRMP as to—
(a)whether or not the councillor member is suffering from a condition that renders the councillor member permanently incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of that office because of ill-health or infirmity of mind or body; and
(b)whether as a result of that condition the councillor member has a reduced likelihood of being capable of undertaking any gainful employment before reaching normal pension age.
(2) The IRMP shall further determine whether, as a result of that condition, the councillor member—
(a)is unlikely to be capable of undertaking any gainful employment before reaching normal pension age; or
(3) A certificate from an IRMP, obtained under paragraphs (1) and (2), shall include a statement that—
(a)that IRMP has not previously advised, or given an opinion on or otherwise been involved in the particular case for which the certificate has been requested; and
(b)that IRMP is not acting, and has not at any time acted, as the representative of the councillor member, the employing authority or any other party in relation to the same case.
(4) The Committee and the IRMP shall have regard to guidance given by the Department when carrying out their function under this regulation, when making an ill-health determination.”
4. For regulation 39 (calculation of ill-health pension amounts) substitute—
“39.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), Tier 1 benefits are calculated by adjusting the councillor member’s active member’s pension account as follows—
(a)An amount is added to the balance in the account for the year in which the councillor member’s employment was terminated, equivalent to the amount of earned pension the councillor member would have accrued between the day following the date of termination and normal pension age, if that councillor member had been treated as receiving pensionable pay for each year and fraction of a year in that period; and
(b)retirement pension is payable to the councillor member as if the councillor member had reached normal pension age on the date the councillor member’s employment was terminated.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), Tier 2 benefits are calculated by adjusting the councillor member’s active member’s pension account as follows—
(a)for the year in which the councillor member’s employment was terminated, by adding one quarter of the sum calculated in accordance with paragraph 39(1)(a); and
(3) Where a councillor member entitled to Tier 1 benefits subsequently becomes an active member of the Scheme, no addition is to be made under paragraph 39(1)(a) or 39(2)(a) to any Tier 1 or Tier 2 benefits that the councillor member becomes entitled to after that subsequent period of membership.
(4) Where a councillor member entitled to Tier 2 benefits (“the initial ill-health retirement”) subsequently becomes an active member of the Scheme, the addition made under paragraph 39(1)(a) or 39(2)(a) to any Tier 1 or Tier 2 benefits that the councillor member becomes entitled to after that subsequent period of membership is modified in accordance with paragraph (5).
(5) The number of years for which a councillor member to whom paragraph (4) applies is treated as having received pensionable pay for the purposes of paragraph 39(1)(a) or 39(2)(a) shall not exceed—
(a)the number of years at the date of the initial ill-health retirement up to the councillor member’s normal pension age at that time, less
(b)a quarter of the number of years calculated in accordance with sub-paragraph (a), less
(c)the number of years during which the councillor member has been an active member of the Scheme after the initial ill-health retirement.”
PART 5Survivor Benefits
1. For regulation 40(3) substitute—
“(3) the death grant of a councillor member is the councillor member’s assumed pensionable pay multiplied by 3.”.
PART 6Transfers
1. Delete regulations 110 to 114 (bulk transfer (transfers of undertakings, etc.), calculation of amount of transfer value payment, inward transfers of pension rights, effect of acceptance of transfer value payment, and EU scheme transfers).
1971 Chapter 35 (N.I.)
S.I. 1972/1073 (N.I. 10); Art. 9 was amended by Art. 34 S.I. 2005/1968 (N.I. 18); Art 14. was amended by Art. 12 S.I. 1990/1509 (N.I. 13).
S.R. 2002 No. 352; as amended by S.R. 2002 No. 353, S.R. 2004 No. 139, S.R. 2005 No. 206, S.R. 2005 No. 274, S.R. 2006 No. 6, S.R. 2006 No. 112, S.R. 2007 No. 152, S.R. 2007 No. 448, S.R. 2007 No. 479 and S.R. 2009 No. 34
2004 c. 35; section 293(8) was amended by S.I. 2007/3014
S.R. 2009 No. 32; as amended by S.R. 2010 No. 164, S.I. 2010/234, S.R. 2010 No. 410, S.R. 2011 No. 117, S.R. 2012 No. 85, S.R. 2012 No. 183 and S.R. 2013 No. 71
S.R. 2009 No. 33; as amended by S.R. 2010 No. 164, S.R. 2010 No. 410, S.R. 2011 No. 117, S.R. 2012 No. 183 and S.R. 2013 No. 71
S.R. 2009 No. 34; as amended by S.R. 2010 No. 410 and S.R. 2013 No. 71
S.R. 2010 No. 297
S.R. 2013 No. 238 (C.15)
S.R. 2000 No. 177; as amended by S.R. 2001 No. 61, S.R. 2001 No. 63, S.R. 2001 No. 64, S.R. 2002 No. 115 and S.R. 2002 No. 353
S.R. 1981 No. 96; as amended by other instruments listed in Schedule 21 to the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (S.R. 1992 No. 547)
1983 c. 54, the definition of “competent authority” was inserted by S.I. 2007/3101
1972 Chapter 9 (N.I.)
2008 c.7 (N.I.)
S.R. 2002 No. 377
S.R. 2014 No. 189
S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3) as amended by S.I.1993/2810 (N.I. 12) and S.I. 1997/1772 (N.I. 15).
2000 c. 8; Paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 3 was amended by S.I. 2006/3221; paragraph 5(d) of that Schedule was amended S.I. 2004/3379.
2000 c. 8; there are amendments to paragraphs 12 and 15 of Schedule 3 which are not relevant to these Regulations.
S.R. 2000 No. 85
1972 Chapter 9 (N.I.) as amended by the Financial Provisions (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1041 (N.I. 11)) and S.R. 1999 No. 449.
S.R. 2012 No. 85