Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
2002
United Kingdom
Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
At a glance
What's here
2 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Schedules
Browse 62 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
A right for the Committee to terminate the agreement in...
A requirement that the admission agreement in its final form...
In relation to a transferee admission body under regulation 4A(2)(a)...
If required by regulation 4A(6), a reference to the indemnity...
A provision requiring the transferee admission body to adopt the...
An undertaking from the transferee admission body to the Committee...
A representation and warranty from the transferee admission body to...
An undertaking from the transferee admission body that it will...
A requirement that the transferee admission body notifies the Committee...
A requirement that the transferee admission body notifies the Committee...
A minimum period of three months' notice to terminate the...
(1) In these Regulations – “Class A member” is a...
Where by virtue of the Taxes Act or any later...
(1) This paragraph sets out limits on benefits in respect...
Paragraphs 4 to 6 set out limits on benefits in...
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the aggregate pensions payable on...
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the aggregate benefit payable by...
(1) The years of service taken into account under paragraph...
(1) If adding the additional contributions payable by a Class...
(1) The maximum addition under regulation ... 57 is –...
(1) This paragraph applies to any member who is a...
Prescribed persons
For the purposes of regulation 111(3) (persons on whom fees...
The Committee shall consist of a chairman and 10 members...
The Committee, which shall be a body corporate with perpetual...
The Committee may appoint a sub-committee or an officer employed...
The number of members of a sub-committee appointed under paragraph...
A sub-committee appointed under paragraph 11 shall consist of members...
A sub-committee or an officer appointed under paragraph 11 shall...
The Committee may revoke any appointment made under paragraph 11,...
Any arrangements made by the Committee for the discharge of...
The seal of the Committee shall be authenticated by the...
Every document purporting to be an instrument issued by the...
Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Committee shall...
(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) and paragraph...
The Committee may with the approval of the Department appoint...
In addition to the appointments mentioned in paragraph 20, the...
(1) The Committee may make arrangements with any Scheme employer,...
Section 18(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall...
The expenses of the Committee, including payments in respect of...
The Committee may, in addition to any payment made under...
(1) The Committee may, with the approval of the Department,...
A member of the Committee entitled to an attendance allowance...
A claim for an ... allowance shall be submitted to...
In this Part – “approved duty” means attendance at a...
The quorum of the Committee shall be six, or such...
An account of the financial additions to, withdrawals from and...
(1) A statement, as at the end of the Scheme...
Quoted securities should be valued at mid-market value.
Where any assets or liabilities are denominated in currencies other...
Particulars of any investment (other than in United Kingdom Government...
Particulars of any employer-related investments, within the meaning of Article...
In respect of every amount shown in the accounts other...
The total amount of the purchases and the total amount...
A statement whether the accounts have been prepared in accordance...
The Committee may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its number...
A casual vacancy occurring in the membership of the Committee...
A member of the Committee may resign his membership by...
Where any member of the Committee is absent from the...
A member of the Committee on vacating his office at...
No defect in the appointment of any person acting as...
Actuarial valuations and certificates
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Committee must obtain actuarial valuations and certificates every three years Local authority
Discontinuance of additional contributions
- Stop paying additional contributions when you leave active membership
Browse 155 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Citation and commencement
Interpretation
General eligibility for membership: employees of Scheme employers etc.
Employees of non-Scheme employers: community admission bodies
Employees of non-Scheme employers: transferee admission bodies
Requirements for admission agreements
Further restrictions on eligibility
Joining the Scheme
Leaving the Scheme
Periods of membership: “total membership”
Excluded membership
Length of period of membership: calculation of benefit
High earners
Members' contributions
Meaning of “pay”
Members with lower rate rights
Employer’s discretion to reduce member’s contribution rate
Inland Revenue limits on contributions
Obligatory contributions during absences
Optional contributions during absences
General qualification for benefits
Limit on total amount of benefits
Deduction of tax
Calculations
Pension debit member
Replacement of rights
Final pay
Other final pay periods
Permanent reductions in pay: certificates of protection of pension benefits
Revenue restrictions
Normal retirement
Retirement after the normal retirement date
Redundancy etc.
Ill-health
Amounts of ill-health pension and grant
Re-employed pensioners
Further provisions about elections under regulation 31
Other early leavers: deferred retirement benefits and elections for early payment
Re-employed and rejoining deferred members
Concurrent employments
Surrenders of pension
No double entitlement
Requirements as to time of payment
Guaranteed minimum pensions etc.
Revaluation of guaranteed minimum
Death grants
Surviving spouse’s or civil partner’s short term pension
Surviving spouse’s or civil partner’s long-term pension
Reduction of some surviving spouses' pensions
Calculation of pension for surviving civil partner
Surviving spouse’s or civil partner’s guaranteed minimum pension
Meaning of “eligible child”
Children’s short-term pensions
Children’s long-term pensions
Discretions as to payment of children’s pensions
Dependants of re-employed pensioners
Commutation: small pensions
Commutation: exceptional ill-health
Scope of Part III: limits on benefits
Power of employing authority to increase total membership ...
Power of employing authority to increase total membership of new members
Effect of increases under this Chapter for older members
Payments to increase total membership
Part-time employees
Effect of increases under this Chapter for older members
Election for pension in lieu of retirement grant
Election for lump sum in lieu of pension
Elections to pay AVCs
Payment of AVCs
Functions of employing authorities
Death benefits
Retirement benefits
Changes of employment in which membership is continued
Elections as to use of accumulated value of AVCs
Establishment of shared cost AVC schemes (SCAVCs)
Applications to pay SCAVCs
Functions of employing authority
Application and investment of SCAVCs
Changes of employment in which membership is continued
Termination
The fund
Governance policy statement
Accounts and audit
Funding strategy statement
Special circumstances where revised actuarial valuations and certificates must be obtained
Apportionment of liabilities
Contributing body’s contributions
Employer’s further payments
Payments by employing authorities to the Committee
Interest
Administration and management
Separate treatment of AVCs and SCAVCs from other contributions
Over-provision: calculation and return of surplus AVC and SCAVC funds
Cost of calculations for transfer of AVCs or SCAVCs into the Scheme where no transfer is requested
Rights to return of contributions
Exclusion of rights to return of contributions
Deduction and recovery of member’s contributions
Pension increases and cash equivalents under the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993
Pension increases under the Pensions (Increase) Acts
Contributions equivalent premiums
Commencement of pensions
Interest on late payment of certain benefits
Payments due in respect of deceased persons
Non-assignability
Treatment of other benefits
First instance decisions
Decisions as to status of employees and decisions as to benefits
Notification of decisions
Appointment of persons to resolve disputes
Right to apply for an appointed person to review a decision
Notice of decisions by the appointed person under regulation 102
Reference of disagreement to the Committee
Notice of decisions by the Committee under regulation 104
Rights of representation
Referral of decisions under regulation 99(1) to the county court
Statements of policy concerning exercise of discretionary functions
Annual benefit statements
Communication policy statements
Information to be supplied by employees
Exchange of information by authorities
Provision of information, charging and prescribed persons
Statements of policy concerning abatement of retirement pensions in new employment
Application of abatement policy in individual cases
Forfeiture of pension rights after conviction of employment-related offences
Interim payments directions
Recovery or retention where former member has misconduct obligation
Protection of GMP rights
Transfer of sums from the fund to compensate for former member’s misconduct
Application of Chapter IV of Part IV of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993
Rights to payment out of the fund
Contracting-out requirements affecting transfers out
Bulk transfers (transfers of undertakings) etc.
Calculation of amount of transfer payment under regulation 122
Inward transfers of pension rights
Right to count credited period
Credited periods for transferring members with mis-sold pension rights
Rights as to service not matched by credited period
Community scheme transferees
Separate employments etc.
Conversion of periods credited under Discretionary Payments Regulations etc. into membership
Rights under Article 14 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972
Interpretation
Discharge of liability for pension credit rights
Aggregation
Death of person entitled to a pension credit before discharge
Safeguarded rights
Valuation date
Application of the Regulations to pension credit members
Calculation
Payment of benefits
Death grants
Commutation: small pensions
Commutation: serious ill-health
Transfers out
Transfers in
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