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s.077
Actuarial valuations and certificates
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Committee must obtain actuarial valuations and certificates every three yearsLocal authority
s.084
Discontinuance of additional contributions
Regulated
- Stop paying additional contributions when you leave active membershipEmployee
155 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation and commencement
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
General eligibility for membership: employees of Scheme employers etc.
s.004
Employees of non-Scheme employers: community admission bodies
s.004
Employees of non-Scheme employers: transferee admission bodies
s.004
Requirements for admission agreements
s.005
Further restrictions on eligibility
s.006
Joining the Scheme
s.007
Leaving the Scheme
s.008
Periods of membership: “total membership”
s.009
Excluded membership
s.010
Length of period of membership: calculation of benefit
s.010
High earners
s.011
Members' contributions
s.012
Meaning of “pay”
s.013
Members with lower rate rights
s.014
Employer’s discretion to reduce member’s contribution rate
s.015
Inland Revenue limits on contributions
s.016
Obligatory contributions during absences
s.017
Optional contributions during absences
s.018
General qualification for benefits
s.018
Limit on total amount of benefits
s.018
Deduction of tax
s.019
Calculations
s.020
Pension debit member
s.021
Replacement of rights
s.022
Final pay
s.023
Other final pay periods
s.024
Permanent reductions in pay: certificates of protection of pension benefits
s.025
Revenue restrictions
s.026
Normal retirement
s.027
Retirement after the normal retirement date
s.028
Redundancy etc.
s.029
Ill-health
s.030
Amounts of ill-health pension and grant
s.031
Re-employed pensioners
s.032
Further provisions about elections under regulation 31
s.033
Other early leavers: deferred retirement benefits and elections for early payment
s.034
Re-employed and rejoining deferred members
s.035
Concurrent employments
s.036
Surrenders of pension
s.037
No double entitlement
s.038
Requirements as to time of payment
s.039
Guaranteed minimum pensions etc.
s.040
Revaluation of guaranteed minimum
s.041
Death grants
s.042
Surviving spouse’s or civil partner’s short term pension
s.043
Surviving spouse’s or civil partner’s long-term pension
s.044
Reduction of some surviving spouses' pensions
s.044
Calculation of pension for surviving civil partner
s.045
Surviving spouse’s or civil partner’s guaranteed minimum pension
s.046
Meaning of “eligible child”
s.047
Children’s short-term pensions
s.048
Children’s long-term pensions
s.049
Discretions as to payment of children’s pensions
s.050
Dependants of re-employed pensioners
s.051
Commutation: small pensions
s.052
Commutation: exceptional ill-health
s.053
Scope of Part III: limits on benefits
s.054
Power of employing authority to increase total membership ...
s.055
Power of employing authority to increase total membership of new members
s.056
Effect of increases under this Chapter for older members
s.057
Payments to increase total membership
s.058
Part-time employees
s.059
Effect of increases under this Chapter for older members
s.060
Election for pension in lieu of retirement grant
s.061
Election for lump sum in lieu of pension
s.062
Elections to pay AVCs
s.063
Payment of AVCs
s.064
Functions of employing authorities
s.065
Death benefits
s.066
Retirement benefits
s.067
Changes of employment in which membership is continued
s.068
Elections as to use of accumulated value of AVCs
s.069
Establishment of shared cost AVC schemes (SCAVCs)
s.070
Applications to pay SCAVCs
s.071
Functions of employing authority
s.072
Application and investment of SCAVCs
s.073
Changes of employment in which membership is continued
s.074
Termination
s.075
The fund
s.075
Governance policy statement
s.076
Accounts and audit
s.076
Funding strategy statement
s.078
Special circumstances where revised actuarial valuations and certificates must be obtained
s.078
Apportionment of liabilities
s.079
Contributing body’s contributions
s.080
Employer’s further payments
s.081
Payments by employing authorities to the Committee
s.082
Interest
s.083
Administration and management
s.085
Separate treatment of AVCs and SCAVCs from other contributions
s.086
Over-provision: calculation and return of surplus AVC and SCAVC funds
s.087
Cost of calculations for transfer of AVCs or SCAVCs into the Scheme where no transfer is requested
s.088
Rights to return of contributions
s.089
Exclusion of rights to return of contributions
s.090
Deduction and recovery of member’s contributions
s.091
Pension increases and cash equivalents under the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993
s.092
Pension increases under the Pensions (Increase) Acts
s.093
Contributions equivalent premiums
s.094
Commencement of pensions
s.095
Interest on late payment of certain benefits
s.096
Payments due in respect of deceased persons
s.097
Non-assignability
s.097
Treatment of other benefits
s.098
First instance decisions
s.099
Decisions as to status of employees and decisions as to benefits
s.100
Notification of decisions
s.101
Appointment of persons to resolve disputes
s.102
Right to apply for an appointed person to review a decision
s.103
Notice of decisions by the appointed person under regulation 102
s.104
Reference of disagreement to the Committee
s.105
Notice of decisions by the Committee under regulation 104
s.106
Rights of representation
s.107
Referral of decisions under regulation 99(1) to the county court
s.108
Statements of policy concerning exercise of discretionary functions
s.108
Annual benefit statements
s.108
Communication policy statements
s.109
Information to be supplied by employees
s.110
Exchange of information by authorities
s.111
Provision of information, charging and prescribed persons
s.112
Statements of policy concerning abatement of retirement pensions in new employment
s.113
Application of abatement policy in individual cases
s.114
Forfeiture of pension rights after conviction of employment-related offences
s.115
Interim payments directions
s.116
Recovery or retention where former member has misconduct obligation
s.117
Protection of GMP rights
s.118
Transfer of sums from the fund to compensate for former member’s misconduct
s.119
Application of Chapter IV of Part IV of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993
s.120
Rights to payment out of the fund
s.121
Contracting-out requirements affecting transfers out
s.122
Bulk transfers (transfers of undertakings) etc.
s.123
Calculation of amount of transfer payment under regulation 122
s.124
Inward transfers of pension rights
s.125
Right to count credited period
s.126
Credited periods for transferring members with mis-sold pension rights
s.127
Rights as to service not matched by credited period
s.128
Community scheme transferees
s.129
Separate employments etc.
s.130
Conversion of periods credited under Discretionary Payments Regulations etc. into membership
s.131
Rights under Article 14 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972
s.132
Interpretation
s.133
Discharge of liability for pension credit rights
s.134
Aggregation
s.135
Death of person entitled to a pension credit before discharge
s.136
Safeguarded rights
s.137
Valuation date
s.138
Application of the Regulations to pension credit members
s.139
Calculation
s.140
Payment of benefits
s.141
Death grants
s.142
Commutation: small pensions
s.143
Commutation: serious ill-health
s.144
Transfers out
s.145
Transfers in
Schedules
Schedules
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s.sch002
A requirement for the transferee admission body to pay to...
Regulated
- Pay all pension contributions and payments due to the CommitteeEmployer
s.sch002
A requirement that the admission agreement in its final form...
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Committee must make admission agreement publicly inspectableLocal authority
s.sch002
A provision requiring the transferee admission body to adopt the...
Regulated
- Adopt the LGPS practices and proceduresEmployer
s.sch002
A requirement that the transferee admission body notifies the Committee...
Regulated
- Notify LGPS Committee when you exercise any discretionEmployer
s.sch002
A requirement that the transferee admission body notifies the Committee...
Regulated
- Notify the pension committee of any changes affecting your scheme participationEmployer
57 other schedules
s.sch002
A right for the Committee to terminate the agreement in...
s.sch002
In relation to a transferee admission body under regulation 4A(2)(a)...
s.sch002
If required by regulation 4A(6), a reference to the indemnity...
s.sch002
An undertaking from the transferee admission body to the Committee...
s.sch002
A representation and warranty from the transferee admission body to...
s.sch002
An undertaking from the transferee admission body that it will...
s.sch002
A minimum period of three months' notice to terminate the...
s.sch004
(1) In these Regulations – “Class A member” is a...
s.sch004
Where by virtue of the Taxes Act or any later...
s.sch004
(1) This paragraph sets out limits on benefits in respect...
s.sch004
Paragraphs 4 to 6 set out limits on benefits in...
s.sch004
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the aggregate pensions payable on...
s.sch004
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the aggregate benefit payable by...
s.sch004
(1) The years of service taken into account under paragraph...
s.sch004
(1) If adding the additional contributions payable by a Class...
s.sch004
(1) The maximum addition under regulation ... 57 is –...
s.sch004
(1) This paragraph applies to any member who is a...
s.sch005
Prescribed persons
s.sch005
For the purposes of regulation 111(3) (persons on whom fees...
s.sch006
The Committee shall consist of a chairman and 10 members...
s.sch006
The Committee, which shall be a body corporate with perpetual...
s.sch006
The Committee may appoint a sub-committee or an officer employed...
s.sch006
The number of members of a sub-committee appointed under paragraph...
s.sch006
A sub-committee appointed under paragraph 11 shall consist of members...
s.sch006
A sub-committee or an officer appointed under paragraph 11 shall...
s.sch006
The Committee may revoke any appointment made under paragraph 11,...
s.sch006
Any arrangements made by the Committee for the discharge of...
s.sch006
The seal of the Committee shall be authenticated by the...
s.sch006
Every document purporting to be an instrument issued by the...
s.sch006
Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Committee shall...
s.sch006
(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) and paragraph...
s.sch006
The Committee may with the approval of the Department appoint...
s.sch006
In addition to the appointments mentioned in paragraph 20, the...
s.sch006
(1) The Committee may make arrangements with any Scheme employer,...
s.sch006
Section 18(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall...
s.sch006
The expenses of the Committee, including payments in respect of...
s.sch006
The Committee may, in addition to any payment made under...
s.sch006
(1) The Committee may, with the approval of the Department,...
s.sch006
A member of the Committee entitled to an attendance allowance...
s.sch006
A claim for an ... allowance shall be submitted to...
s.sch006
In this Part – “approved duty” means attendance at a...
s.sch006
The quorum of the Committee shall be six, or such...
s.sch006
An account of the financial additions to, withdrawals from and...
s.sch006
(1) A statement, as at the end of the Scheme...
s.sch006
Quoted securities should be valued at mid-market value.
s.sch006
Where any assets or liabilities are denominated in currencies other...
s.sch006
Particulars of any investment (other than in United Kingdom Government...
s.sch006
Particulars of any employer-related investments, within the meaning of Article...
s.sch006
In respect of every amount shown in the accounts other...
s.sch006
The total amount of the purchases and the total amount...
s.sch006
A statement whether the accounts have been prepared in accordance...
s.sch006
The Committee may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its number...
s.sch006
A casual vacancy occurring in the membership of the Committee...
s.sch006
A member of the Committee may resign his membership by...
s.sch006
Where any member of the Committee is absent from the...
s.sch006
A member of the Committee on vacating his office at...
s.sch006
No defect in the appointment of any person acting as...
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