PART 2Administration
Transfers
Changes of administering authority103
1
Subject to F1paragraphs (7) and (8), this regulation applies where—
a
an administering authority becomes an active member's appropriate administering authority;
b
immediately before it does so, another administering authority was that member's appropriate administering authority; F3...
c
in a case where a member has the option of aggregating the past period of membership with the current period of membership, the member has exercised the option to aggregate those periodsF4; and
d
in a case where a member has the option of not aggregating a past period of membership with the current period of membership, the member has not exercised the option of retaining separate benefits
2
An administering authority which has ceased to be a member's appropriate administering authority must make a transfer value payment to the member's new appropriate administering authority in accordance with actuarial guidance issued by the Secretary of State.
3
Where paragraph (2) applies as respects 10 or more members by virtue of a single event, the amount of the payment under that paragraph shall be determined by agreement between an actuary appointed by the administering authority by which the payment must be made and an actuary appointed by the administering authority to which it must be made.
4
Where the actuaries cannot agree on the amount within 12 months of the date of transfer, or where there is more than one date of transfer, the date of the last transfer which relates to the single event—
a
the matter shall be referred to a third actuary, chosen by agreement between the actuaries, or in default of agreement, by the President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries; and
b
that actuary's determination shall be final.
5
The costs of determining the amount to be transferred shall be paid in equal shares by the fund held by the member's former appropriate administering authority and the fund held by the member's new appropriate administering authority.
6
Any payment under paragraph (2) must be credited to the new appropriate administering authority's fund.
7
This regulation does not apply where a member enters an employment in local government service F5(including employment in respect of which the member satisfies the conditions in regulation 3(1)(b)) which is concurrent with another in which the member is also an active member.
F28
This regulation does not apply where a member’s administering authority has changed in the circumstances described in regulation 104(1) (change of administering authority in connection with probation service arrangements).