Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Special Cases

Community scheme transferees

18.—(1) Community scheme transferees and their surviving spouses, dependants and children are entitled to such rights under the Scheme as are specified in guidance issued by the Government Actuary.

(2) A Community Scheme transferee is a person–

(a) who became employed by a Community institution after having been employed in local government employment;

(b) in respect of whom the scheme managers of the Communities' scheme were paid a transfer value under Chapter IV of Part IV of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 or Part K of the 2000 Regulations or any corresponding earlier provisions; and

(c) in respect of whom the Committee has been repaid for the credit of the fund an amount which in accordance with that guidance may be treated as equivalent to that transfer value.

(3) The rights to which any person is entitled by virtue of guidance under this regulation must not be less valuable than those to which he would have been entitled if regulation K13 of the 2000 Regulations still applied to him.