Local Government (Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1998 No. 286

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Local Government (Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made

14th August 1998

Coming into operation

1st October 1998

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of powers conferred by Article 19 of The Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(1) and now vested in it(2), and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1998.

Amendment

2.  Schedule 1 to the Local Government (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1983(3) is amended—

(a) by substituting a semi-colon for the full stop at the end of item (m); and

(b) by inserting after item (m) the following item—

“(n) the Laganside Corporation.”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

L.S.

R. McMinnis

Assistant Secretary

14th August 1998.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These regulations further amend the Local Government (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1983 (the principal Regulations) to extend their application to the Laganside Corporation.

Employing authorities specified in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, whose employees have ceased their employment through redundancy or in the interests of the efficiency of their employing authorities, can compensate them in certain cases by the award of additional years of service. These regulations ensure that the compensation provisions will apply to the Laganside Corporation.

(1)

S.I. 1972/1073 (N.I. 10)

(2)

S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 504 Article 7(1); S.I. 1976/424 (N.I. 6)

(3)

S.R. 1983 No. 30, Schedule 1 was amended by S.R. 1986 No. 80, regulation 10 and by S.R. 1998 No. 41, regulation 6