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2002 No. 115

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

  Made 20th March 2002 
  Coming into operation 1st May 2002 

The Department of the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 9 and 14 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972[1] and now vested in it[2] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf and after consultation with the Northern Ireland Local Government Association, the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee and such representatives of other persons likely to be affected by the Regulations as appeared to it to be appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and retrospection
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) shall come into operation on 1st May 2002.

    (2) Regulations 3 and 4 shall have effect as from 2nd April 2001.

    (3) Regulations 5 and 7 shall have effect as from 1st August 2000.

Amendment of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000
    
2. The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000[3] shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 8.

Agreements to enable employees of non-LGPS employers to be members ("admission agreements")
     3. In paragraphs (7)(d) and (16) of regulation B6[4], for "Schedule A2" insert "Schedule A3"[5].

Matters to be included in an admission agreement in certain cases
     4. Schedule A2 shall be renumbered as Schedule A3.

Referral of decisions under regulation J2(1) to the county court
    
5. In regulation J10 for the words "in the county" there shall be substituted the words "in the county court division" and for the words "counties, in one of those counties" there shall be substituted the words "county court divisions, in one of those divisions".

Accounts, audit and annual report
    
6. For regulation L2 there shall be substituted the following - 

Expenses and allowances payable by the Committee
    
7. In Part III of Schedule L1 for paragraphs 26 to 29 there shall be substituted the following - 

     8. After Schedule L1 there shall be added the following - 





Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on


20th March 2002.

L.S.


Dermot Nesbitt
Minister of the Environment


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)


These Regulations amend the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 ("the principal Regulations").

Regulations 3 and 4 make minor amendments.

Regulation 5 makes minor amendments to regulation J10 of the principal Regulations in relation to the county court.

Regulation 6 substitutes a new regulation L2 in the principal Regulations and makes provision for the preparation and auditing of the financial statements of the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee ("the Committee").

Regulation 7 amends Part III of Schedule L1 to the principal Regulations in relation to payments by the Committee to its members by substituting the term "attendance allowance" for "financial loss allowance".

Regulation 8 inserts a new Schedule L2 to the principal Regulations to make provision for the form and the content of the financial statements.

Article 14 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 confers express powers to make regulations retrospective in effect. Regulations 3 and 4 are retrospective to 2nd April 2001 and regulations 5 and 7 are retrospective to 1st August 2000, but no one will be adversely affected by these retrospective provisions.


Notes:

[1] S.I. 1972/1073 (N.I. 10); Article 14 was amended by Article 12 of the Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I.1990/1509 (N.I. 13))back

[2] S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 504 Article 7(1); S.I. 1976/424 (N.I. 6)back

[3] S.R. 2000 No. 177 as amended by S.R. 2001 No. 61, S.R. 2001 No. 63 and S.R. 2001 No. 64back

[4] As substituted by S.R. 2001 No. 64, regulation 3back

[5] Schedule A2 was inserted by S.R. 2001 No. 64, regulation 8 and the Scheduleback

[6] 1972 c. 9 (N.I.) as amended by the Financial Provisions (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1041 (N.I. 11)) and by S.R. 1999 No. 449back

[7] 1993 c. 49back

[8] Copies may be purchased from ABG Professional Information, PO Box 21375, London WC1N 1QPback

[9] See S.R. 1990 No. 338back



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Prepared 5 April 2002


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