The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 No. 188

SCHEDULES

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 1 N.I. INTERPRETATION

• “the 1971 Act” means the Pensions (Increase) (Northern Ireland) Act 1971 M1

• “the 1972 Order” means the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 M2 ;

• “the 1993 Act” means the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 M3 ;

• “the 1995 Order” means the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 M4 ;

• “the 1996 Order” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 M5 ;

• “the 1999 Act” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 M6 ;

• “the 1999 Order” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 M7 ;

• [F1 “the 2000 Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000;]

• “the 2002 Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 M8 ;

• “the 2004 Finance Act” means the Finance Act 2004 M9 ;

• “the 2004 Pensions Act” means the Pensions Act 2004 M10 ;

• “the 2008 Act” means the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 M11 ;

• “the 2009 Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 M12 , the Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 M13 , and the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 M14 ;

• [F2 “the 2014 Act” means the Public Service Pension Act (Northern Ireland) 2014]

• “active member” means a person who is in an employment, and is—

  (a)

  paying contributions to the Scheme;

  (b)

  treated as paying contributions to the Scheme; or

  (c)

  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;

• F3 ...

• “additional pension” means pension under these Regulations other than earned pension;

• “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;

• [F4 “the Advisory Board” means a board established under regulation 120 (scheme advisory board: establishment);]

• “amount of accrued pension” means the earned pension in a member's pension account adjusted to take account of any revaluation adjustment applicable;

• “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;

• “base rate” means the base rate for the time being quoted by the reference banks or, where there is for the time being more than one such base rate, the rate which, when the base rate quoted by each bank is ranked in a descending sequence of seven, is fourth in the sequence;

• “benefit crystallisation event” has the meaning given by section 7 of the 2004 Finance Act;

• [F5 “the Board” means a board established under regulation 116 (pension board: establishment);]

• “child-related leave” means—

  (a)

  ordinary adoption leave;

  (b)

  ordinary maternity leave;

  (c)

  additional maternity or adoption leave during which the member receives some pensionable pay;

  (d)

  paternity leave; F6 ...

  (e)

  F7 ...

  (f)

  [F8 shared parental leave during which the member receives some pensionable pay;] [F9 or]

  (g)

  [F10 parental bereavement 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;

• [F11 “Club Memorandum” means—

  (a)

  in respect of a Club Transfer completed before 1st April 2015, the memorandum published by the Cabinet Office under the title “The Public Sector Transfer Club – Memorandum by the Cabinet Office – effective from 1st March 2012;

  (b)

  in respect of a Club Transfer completed in the period from 1st April 2015 to 28th February 2017, the memorandum published by the Cabinet Office under the title “The Public Sector Transfer Club – Memorandum by the Cabinet Office – effective from 1st April 2015; and

  (c)

  in respect of a Club Transfer completed on or after 1st March 2017, the memorandum published by the Cabinet Office under the title “The Public Sector Transfer Club – Memorandum by the Cabinet Office – effective from 1st March 2017 or any replacement or revision thereof for the time being in force;

• “Club Transfer” means a transfer of employment between members of the Public Sector Transfer Club;]

• “the Committee” means the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee established under section 1 of the Local Government (Superannuation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 M15 ;

• [F12 “cohabiting partner” means a person whom the Committee is satisfied fulfils the following condition—

  (a)

  the person (P) has fulfilled the condition in paragraph (b) for a continuous period of at least two years on the date the member (M) died;

  (b)

  the condition is that—

  (i)

  M is able to marry, or form a civil partnership with, P;

  (ii)

  M and P are living together as if they were a married couple or as if they were civil partners;

  (iii)

  neither M nor P is living with a third person as if they were a married couple or as if they were civil partners; and

  (iv)

  either P is financially dependent on M, or M and P are financially interdependent; and

  (c)

  in this definition—

  (i)

  “member” means an active member or a former active member who has become a deferred or pensioner member in accordance with these Regulations or the 2009 Regulations; and

  (ii)

  the qualifying time period, under paragraph (a), of a continuous period of at least two years on the date the member died as it applies in relation to the condition in paragraph (b)(i) (ability to marry or form a civil partnership) no longer applies from 18th November 2019;]

• “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;

• [F13 “conflict of interest” in relation to a person, means a financial or other interest which is likely to prejudice the person’s exercise of functions as a member of the Advisory Board or the Board (but does not include a financial or other interest merely by virtue of membership of the Scheme);]

• “contract of employment” includes terms of office;

• “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 member” means a person who is a member of the Scheme by reason of being a councillor;

• “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);

• “the Department” means the Department of the Environment;

• “dependent”, in relation to a person, means that in the opinion of the Committee, at the date of the member's death—

  (a)

  the person was financially dependent on the member;

  (b)

  the person's financial relationship with the member was one of mutual dependence; or

  (c)

  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);

• “eligible child”, in relation to a deceased member, means—

  (a)

  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

  (b)

  a step-child or child accepted by the deceased as a member of the family (excluding a child sponsored by the member through a registered charity) who—

  (i)

  meets any of conditions A to C; and

  (ii)

  was dependent on the member at the date of death.

• Condition A is that the person is aged under 18.

• [F14 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—

  (i)

  continue to treat a person as fulfilling condition B notwithstanding any break in a course of the education or vocational training; or

  (ii)

  suspend payment of any entitlement to benefits under regulations 43 (survivor benefits: children of active members), 48 (survivor benefits: children of deferred members) and 53 (survivor benefits: children of pensioner members) during such a break.]

• Condition C is that the person is unable to engage in gainful employment because of physical or mental impairment and either—

  (i)

  has not reached the age of twenty-three; or

  (ii)

  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 F15 ... physical or mental impairment.

• “employment” includes office;

• “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 M16 ;

• “existing council” means a district council constituted under section 1 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 M17 as in force immediately prior to the making of the Local Government (Boundaries) (2008 Act) (Commencement, Transitional Provision and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 M18 ;

• “former regulations” means the 2009 Regulations, the 2002 Regulations, the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 M19 , or as the circumstances require, the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 M20 , the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 M21 , the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1962 M22 or the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1950 M23 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 [F16 inheriting body] 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;

• [F17 “inheriting body” means—

  (a)

  an admission body which continues to employ active members or whose admission agreement otherwise remains in effect;

  (b)

  an employing authority which employs active members at the date on which the original employer withdraws from the Scheme; and

  (c)

  any other body;

  which has agreed to accept responsibility for some or all of the liabilities of the original employer towards the Scheme;; and]

• “inherited liabilities” has the meaning given to it in [F18 regulation 71(1), 71(10) or 71(11)] as applicable;

• “IRMP” means an independent registered medical practitioner who is registered with the General Medical Council and—

  (a)

  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 M24 ; or

  (b)

  is an Associate, a Member or a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine or an equivalent institution of an EEA state;

• “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 [F19 but excludes employment with an employer after it has ceased to be an employing authority in 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 M25 as amended by section 3(1) of the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 M26 ;

• F20 ...

• “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 [F21 inheriting body] or guarantor has assumed to accept responsibility for some or all of the liabilities previously attributable to that employing authority;

• [F22 “parental bereavement leave” means leave under Article 112EA of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;]

• “partner” F23 ... means a spouse, civil partner or F24 ... co-habiting partner;

• “paternity leave” means leave under regulation 4 or 8 of the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 M27 ;

• “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” means a credit under Article 26(1)(b) of the 1999 Order or under section 29(1)(b) of the 1999 Act;

• “pension credit member” has the meaning given by regulation 10(1) (pension credit and survivor members);

• “pension debit” means a debit under Article 26(1)(a) of the 1999 Order or under section 29(1)(a) of the 1999 Act;

• “pension debit member” means a member, whether an active member, a deferred member or a pensioner member, whose shareable rights under the Scheme are subject to a pension debit;

• “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;

• [F25 “Public Sector Transfer Club” means the arrangement approved by the Department and detailed in the Club Memorandum as providing reciprocal arrangements between the Scheme and other registered occupational pension schemes for making and receiving transfer value payments;]

• “public service pension scheme” F26 ... 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);

• “reference banks” means the seven largest persons for the time being who—

  (a)

  have permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 M28 to accept deposits;

  (b)

  are incorporated in the United Kingdom and carry on there a regulated activity of accepting deposits; and

  (c)

  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 M29 , or before the commencement of section 1159, as defined by Article 4 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 M30 , as shown in the audited end-of-year accounts last published before that time, and this definition shall be read with—

  (i)

  section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 M31 ;

  (ii)

  any relevant order under that section; and

  (iii)

  Schedule 2 to that Act;

• “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 M32 ;

• [F27 “retirement grant” has the meaning given in regulation 19 (calculations) of the 2002 Regulations;]

• “retirement pension” includes earned pension and additional pension;

• [F28 “retiring allowance” means a retiring allowance payable under regulation E2 (entitlement to retirement pension and retiring allowance) of the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992;]

• [F29 “revaluation adjustment” means—

  (a)

  in the case of a balance transferred under a Club Transfer, the adjustment that would have applied to that balance if it had not been transferred; and

  (b)

  in any other case the percentage specified as the change in prices in the relevant Treasury Order made under section 9(2) of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 which applied to a 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 employment” means an employment by virtue of which a person is entitled to be a member of the Scheme;

• “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;

• “Scheme year” means a period of one year beginning with 1st April and ending with 31st March;

• “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;

• [F30 “shared parental leave” means leave under the Shared Parental Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015;]

• [F31 “standard retirement grant” has the meaning given in regulation D2 (“standard retirement pension” and “standard retirement grant”) of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000;]

• “statutory pay” means any [F32 statutory sick, maternity,] paternity [F33 , shared parental] [F34 , parental bereavement] or adoption pay payable under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 M33 ;

• “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 [F35 and any pension payable under the former Regulations to a survivor;]

• “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 M34 ;

• “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 M35 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/128), regs. 1(1), 26(a)

F2 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (6.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/162), regs. 1(1), 24(a)

F3 Words in Sch. 1 omitted (5.4.2015) by virtue of The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/146), arts. 1(3), 21(4)(a) (with art. 25)

F4 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Governance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/77), regs. 1(1), 5(a)

F5 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Governance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/77), regs. 1(1), 5(b)

F6 Word in Sch. 1 omitted (2.4.2023) by virtue of The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/56), regs. 1(1), 19(4)(a), 34

F7 Words in Sch. 1 omitted (5.4.2015) by virtue of The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/146), arts. 1(3), 21(4)(b)(i) (with art. 25)

F8 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (15.3.2015) by The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/146), arts. 1(2), 21(4)(b)(ii)

F9 Word in Sch. 1 inserted (2.4.2023) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/56), regs. 1(1), 19(4)(b), 34

F10 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (2.4.2023) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/56), regs. 1(1), 19(4)(c), 34

F11 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (18.11.2019) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 81(a)

F12 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(c) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 31(a)

F13 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Governance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/77), regs. 1(1), 5(c)

F14 Words in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/162), regs. 1(2), 24(b)(i)

F15 Word in Sch. 1 deleted (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/162), regs. 1(2), 24(b)(ii)

F16 Words in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/162), regs. 1(2), 24(c)

F17 Words in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/162), regs. 1(2), 24(d)

F18 Words in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/162), regs. 1(2), 24(e)

F19 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/163), regs. 1(1), 13(a)

F20 Words in Sch. 1 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(c) of the amending Rule) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 31(b)

F21 Words in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/162), regs. 1(2), 24(f)

F22 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (2.4.2023) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/56), regs. 1(1), 19(4)(d), 34

F23 Words in Sch. 1 omitted (18.11.2019) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 81(b)

F24 Word in Sch. 1 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(c) of the amending Rule) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 31(c)

F25 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (18.11.2019) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 81(c)

F26 Word in Sch. 1 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Rule) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/163), regs. 1(1), 13(b)

F27 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/128), regs. 1(1), 26(b)

F28 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/128), regs. 1(1), 26(c)

F29 Words in Sch. 1 substituted (18.11.2019) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 81(d)

F30 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (15.3.2015) by The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/146), arts. 1(2), 21(4)(d)

F31 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/128), regs. 1(1), 26(e)

F32 Words in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/162), regs. 1(2), 24(g)

F33 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (15.3.2015) by The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/146), arts. 1(2), 21(4)(c)

F34 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (2.4.2023) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/56), regs. 1(1), 19(4)(e), 34

F35 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/163), regs. 1(1), 13(c)

Marginal Citations

M1 1971 Chapter 35 (N.I.)

M2 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).

M3 1993 c. 49

M4 S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)

M5 S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16)

M6 1999 c. 30

M7 S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)

M8 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

M9 2004 c. 12

M10 2004 c. 35; section 293(8) was amended by S.I. 2007/3014

M11 2008 c. 13 (N.I.)

M12 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

M13 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

M14 S.R. 2009 No. 34; as amended by S.R. 2010 No. 410 and S.R. 2013 No. 71

M15 1950 c. 10 (N.I.)

M16 2005 No. 255 (N.I. 1)

M17 1972 c. 9 (N.I.)

M18 S.R. 2013 No. 238 (C.15)

M19 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

M20 S.R. 1992 No. 547; as amended by other instruments listed in Schedule M3 to the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000 No. 177)

M21 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)

M22 S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1962 No. 210

M23 S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1950 No. 103 (p. 423)

M24 1983 c. 54, the definition of “competent authority” was inserted by S.I. 2007/3101

M25 1972 Chapter 9 (N.I.)

M26 2008 c.7 (N.I.)

M27 S.R. 2002 No. 377

M28 2000 c. 8

M29 2006 c. 46

M30 S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6)

M31 2008 c. 8

M32 1996 c. 14

M33 1992 c. 7

M34 S.I. 1995/1980 (N.I. 12)

M35 S.R. 2014 No. 189