2006 No. 112
Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006
Made
Coming into operation
The Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 9 and 14 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 19721 and now vested in it2.
In accordance with Article 9(4) of that Order the Department has consulted with the Northern Ireland Local Government Association, the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee and such representatives of other persons likely to be affected by the Regulations as appeared to it to be appropriate:
Citation, commencement and retrospection1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2006 and, except as provided in paragraph (2), shall have effect as from that date.
2
Regulation 2(3) shall have effect as from 1st June 2005.
Amendment2
1
The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20023 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
2
In regulation 76 (accounts and audit)—
a
in paragraph (2) for the words “31st March 2003” there shall be substituted “31st March 2006”; and
b
in paragraph (3) for the words “shall contain the information specified in Part IV of Schedule 6.” there shall be substituted—
shall be prepared in accordance with guidance for the time being issued by the Department of Finance and Personnel.
3
In regulation 80 (employer’s further payments) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted—
2
Where an employing authority passes a resolution under regulation 130 in a case where paragraph (4)(a) of that regulation does not apply, it must pay the appropriate sum to the fund before the expiry of the period of one month beginning with the date on which the resolution is passed.
4
Part IV of Schedule 6 (contents of financial statements audited by the local government auditor) is hereby revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 10th March 2006
(This note is not part of the Regulations)