- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Regulated
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Employer2
Any Person1
Plus 2 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.005
Employees of transferee admission bodies
Regulated
- Transferee admission bodies must undertake to meet LGPS requirements for employee admissionEmployer
s.006
Admission agreements – further provisions
Regulated
- You must carry out a risk assessment and get an indemnity or bond for your pension admission agreementEmployer
s.010
Ending of membership
Regulated
- Notify employer in writing if you wish to leave the pension schemeAny Person
s.028
Admission agreement funds
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Notify the Department and manage actuarial transfers for admission agreement fundsLocal authority
s.031
Actuarial valuations and certificates
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Pension committee must obtain triennial actuarial valuations and certificatesLocal authority
100 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation and commencement
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
General eligibility for membership
s.003
Eligibility of councillors
s.004
Employees of community admission bodies
s.007
Separate employments, etc.
s.008
Further restrictions on eligibility
s.009
Joining the Scheme
s.011
Periods of membership
s.012
Re-employed and rejoining deferred members
s.013
Concurrent employments
s.014
Contributions during child-related leave
s.015
Contributions during reserve forces service leave
s.016
Contributions during trade dispute absence
s.017
Contributions during absences with permission
s.018
Applications to make absence contributions
s.019
Payment of additional regular contributions (ARCs)
s.020
Discontinuance of ARCs
s.020
Payment of additional contributions: survivor benefits (ASBCs)
s.020
Discontinuance of ASBCs
s.021
Additional voluntary contributions and shared cost additional voluntary contributions
s.022
Use of accumulated value of AVCs and SCAVCs
s.023
Separate treatment of AVCs and SCAVCs from other contributions
s.024
Cost of calculations of additional pension where no notification given under regulation 22(4)
s.025
Administration and management
s.026
The fund
s.027
Governance policy statement
s.029
Accounts and audit
s.030
Funding strategy statement
s.032
Supply of copies of valuations, certificates, etc.
s.033
Special circumstances where revised actuarial valuations and certificates must be obtained
s.033
Apportionment of liabilities
s.034
Contributing body’s contributions
s.035
Employer’s payment following resolution to increase membership or award additional pension
s.036
Employer’s further payments
s.037
Payments by employing authorities to the Committee
s.038
Additional costs arising from employing authority’s level of performance
s.039
Interest
s.040
Deduction and recovery of a member’s contributions
s.041
Rights to return of contributions
s.042
Exclusion of rights to return of contributions
s.043
Pension increases under the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993
s.044
Contributions equivalent premiums
s.045
Commencement of pensions
s.045
Guaranteed minimum pensions
s.045
Survivor benefits: guaranteed minimum pension
s.045
Joint liability in respect of annual allowance charge
s.046
Interest on late payment of certain benefits
s.047
Payments due in respect of deceased persons
s.047
Payments for persons incapable of managing their affairs
s.048
Non-assignability
s.049
Interpretation of Part
s.050
First instance decisions – general
s.051
First instance determinations: ill-health
s.052
Notification of first instance decisions
s.053
Appointment of persons to resolve disputes
s.054
Right to apply for an appointed person to review a decision
s.055
Notice of decisions by the appointed person under regulation 54
s.056
Reference of disagreement to the Committee
s.057
Notice of decisions by the Committee under regulation 56
s.058
Rights of representation
s.059
Referral of decisions under regulation 50(1) to the county court
s.060
Exchange of information by authorities
s.061
Pension administration strategy
s.062
Exercise of discretionary functions: policy statements
s.063
Communication policy statements
s.064
Annual benefit statements
s.064
Pension savings statements
s.065
Information to be supplied by employees
s.066
Statements of policy concerning abatement of retirement pensions in new employment
s.067
Application of abatement policy in individual cases
s.068
Forfeiture of pension rights after conviction of employment-related offences
s.069
Interim payments directions
s.070
Recovery or retention where former member has misconduct obligation
s.071
Protection of guaranteed minimum pension rights
s.071
Revaluation of guaranteed minimum
s.072
Transfer of sums from the fund to compensate for former member’s misconduct
s.073
Interpretation of Part
s.074
Application of Chapter 4, etc.
s.075
Rights to payment out of the fund
s.076
Contracting-out requirements affecting transfers out
s.077
Bulk transfers (transfer of undertakings), etc.
s.078
Calculation of amount of transfer payment under regulation 77
s.079
Inward transfers of pension rights
s.080
Right to count credited period
s.081
Community scheme transferees
s.082
Pension debit member
s.083
Interpretation
s.084
Discharge of liability for pension credit rights
s.085
Aggregation
s.086
Death of a person entitled to a pension credit before discharge
s.087
Safeguarded rights
s.088
Valuation date
s.089
Application of the Regulations to pension credit members
s.090
Calculation
s.091
Payment of benefits
s.092
Death grants: pension credit members
s.093
Commutation: small pensions
s.094
Transfers out
s.095
Transfers in
Schedules
Schedules
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s.sch002
A requirement for the ... admission body to pay to...
s.sch002
A right for the Committee to terminate the agreement in...
s.sch002
A requirement that the admission agreement in its final form...
s.sch002
In relation to a transferee admission body under regulation 5(2)(a)...
s.sch002
If required by regulation 6(4) , a reference to the...
s.sch002
If required by regulation 6(5), a reference to the guarantee...
s.sch002
A provision requiring the ... admission body to adopt the...
s.sch002
An undertaking from the ... admission body to the Committee...
s.sch002
A representation and warranty from the transferee admission body to...
s.sch002
An undertaking from the ... admission body that it will...
s.sch002
A requirement that the ... admission body notifies the Committee...
s.sch002
A requirement that a ... admission body—
s.sch002
A provision— (a) for automatic termination of the admission agreement,...
s.sch003
The Committee appointed by the Minister shall consist of—
s.sch003
The Committee, which shall be a body corporate with perpetual...
s.sch003
The Committee may appoint a sub-committee or an officer employed...
s.sch003
The number of members of a sub-committee appointed under paragraph...
s.sch003
A sub-committee appointed under paragraph 11 shall consist of members...
s.sch003
A sub-committee or an officer appointed under paragraph 11 shall...
s.sch003
The Committee may revoke any appointment made under paragraph 11...
s.sch003
Any arrangements made by the Committee for the discharge of...
s.sch003
The seal of the Committee shall be authenticated by the...
s.sch003
Every document purporting to be an instrument issued by the...
s.sch003
Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Benefits Regulations...
s.sch003
(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) and paragraph...
s.sch003
The Committee may with the approval of the Department appoint...
s.sch003
In addition to the appointments mentioned in paragraph 20 ,...
s.sch003
(1) The Committee may make arrangements with any employing authority,...
s.sch003
Section 18(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall...
s.sch003
The expenses of the Committee, including payments in respect of...
s.sch003
The Committee may, with the approval of the Department, in...
s.sch003
(1) The Committee may, with the approval of the Department,...
s.sch003
A claim for an allowance shall be submitted to the...
s.sch003
In this Part, “approved duty” means attendance at a meeting...
s.sch003
The quorum of the Committee shall be 6, or such...
s.sch003
The Committee may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its numbers...
s.sch003
A casual vacancy occurring in the membership of the Committee...
s.sch003
A member of the Committee may resign his membership by...
s.sch003
Where any member of the Committee is absent from the...
s.sch003
A member of the Committee on vacating his office at...
s.sch003
No defect in the appointment of any person acting as...
s.sch004
Regulation 12(1) (re-employed and rejoining deferred members) shall only apply...
s.sch004
Delete regulation 13 (concurrent employments).
s.sch004
Delete regulation 21(3) (additional voluntary contributions and shared cost additional...
s.sch004
In regulations 21 to 23 delete “and SCAVCs” and “or...
s.sch004
In regulation 22(1)(a)(ii) (use of accumulated value of AVCs and...
s.sch004
In regulation 41 (rights to return of contributions) delete paragraphs...
s.sch004
Delete regulations 77 to 81 (bulk transfers (transfers of undertaking),...
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