The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Amendment of the Principal Regulations

24.  In Schedule 1 (interpretation)—

(a) after the definition of “the 2009 Regulations” insert—

““the 2014 Act” means the Public Service Pension Act (Northern Ireland) 2014(1)”;

(b) in the definition of “eligible child”—

(i) for “Condition B” substitute—

“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.”; and

(ii) in Condition C, in sub-paragraph (ii), delete “that”;

(c) in the definition of “guarantor” for “inheriting employer” substitute “inheriting body”;

(d) for the definition of “inheriting employer” substitute—

““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”; and

(e) in the definition of “inherited liabilities” for “regulation 70 or 71” substitute “regulation 71(1), 71(10) or 71(11)”;

(f) in the definition of “original employer” for “inheriting employer” substitute “inheriting body”; and

(g) in the definition of “statutory pay” for “statutory maternity,” substitute “statutory sick, maternity,”.

(1)

2014 c. 2 (N.I).