1998 No. 286
LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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

Made
Coming into operation
The Department of the Environment, in exercise of powers conferred by Article 19 of The Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 19721 and now vested in it2, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:

Citation and commencement1.

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.

Amendment2.

Schedule 1 to the Local Government (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19833 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

R. McMinnis
Assistant Secretary
(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.