The Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1986

Interpretation

J1.  In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires—

"Communities' scheme" means the pension scheme provided for officials and other servants of the Communities in accordance with regulations adopted by the Council of the European Communities;

“Community institution” includes a body treated as one of the Communities' institutions for the purposes of the Communities' scheme;

“fund authority” means—

(a)

in the application of regulations 12 to 16 to a person, the body maintaining the superannuation fund to which he was a contributor immediately before he ceased to be employed in his local government employment or, if that fund has been closed, the body which would be liable to pay him his pension in respect of that employment if he had been entitled to receive payment of such a pension when he ceased to be employed in his local government employment, and

(b)

in the application of regulations JS to J12 to a person, the body maintaining the superannuation fund to which he became a contributor after he ceased to be employed in his non-local government employment or, if that fund has been closed—

(i)

if when the fund was closed he was not employed in local government employment, the body which would be liable to pay him his pension in respect of the local government employment in question if he had been entitled to receive payment of such a pension when he ceased to be employed in that employment; and

(ii)

in all other cases, the body maintaining the superannuation fund to which he became a contributor when the fund was closed;

“local Act authority” and “local Act scheme” have—

(a)

in relation to any time before 25th March 1972, the same meanings as in the Act of 1937, and

(b)

in relation to any time on or after 25th March 1972, the same meanings as in section 8 of the Act of 1972;

“local government employer”, in relation to a person who is, or has been, employed in local government employment, means the body which is, or is treated as being, the employing authority or former employing authority for the purposes of the Acts of 1937 to 1953, the local Act scheme or these regulations, as the case may be;

“pension” does not include an allowance or gratuity; and

“service” means service or employment with any employer.