Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Interest on late payment of certain benefits

95.—(1) Where all or part of a pension or lump sum payment due under these Regulations or the 2000 Regulations is not paid within the relevant period after the due date, the Committee must pay interest on the unpaid amount to the person to whom it is payable calculated from the due date as provided in regulation 82(2).

(2) The relevant period –

(a) in the case of a pension is one year;

(b) in the case of a payment made under regulation 41(1) or 142, is the period ending one month after the date on which the Committee receives notification of the member’s death; and

(c) otherwise is one month.

(3) In the case of a pension the due date is the date on which it becomes payable.

(4) In the case of a retirement grant, the due date is the date on which it is payable.

(5) In the case of a death grant, the due date is the date on which the member dies.

(6) In the case of an ill health grant, the due date is the day after the member ceased to hold his employment.

(7) In the case of a payment of a lump sum under regulation 51, 52, 142 or 143 the due date is the day after the member would otherwise become entitled to payment of a pension.

(8) In this regulation, references to “member” include a surviving spouse, eligible child or children or a pension credit member and the reference in paragraph (4) to the “retirement grant” includes the lump sum grant referred to in regulation 133(2)(a).