PART 2MEMBERSHIP OF SCHEME

Employees of community admission bodiesI14

1

Subject to the requirements of this regulation and regulation 6 (admission agreements – further provisions), the Committee may make an admission agreement with any community admission body.

2

The following are community admission bodies—

a

a body which provides a public service in the United Kingdom otherwise than for the purposes of gain and which either—

i

has sufficient links with an employing authority for the body and the employing authority to be regarded as having a community of interest whether because the operations of the body are dependent on the operations of the employing authority or otherwise, or

ii

is approved by the Department for the purpose of admission to the Scheme;

b

a body to the funds of which any employing authority contributes;

c

a body representative of—

i

local authorities;

ii

local authorities and officers of local authorities;

iii

officers of local authorities where it is formed for the purpose of consultation on the common interests of local authorities and the discussion of matters relating to local government; or

iv

employing authorities;

d

a statutory undertaker;

e

a non-statutory undertaker;

f

the managers of a voluntary school within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 19863; and

g

the governing body of an institution of further education within the meaning of the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 19974.

3

Approval under paragraph (2)(a)(ii) may be subject to such conditions as the Department thinks fit and it may withdraw approval at any time if such conditions are not met.

4

Where, at the date that an admission agreement is made with a body mentioned in paragraph (2)(b), the funding contributions paid to the body by one or more employing authorities equal in total 50% or less of the total amount it receives from all sources, it must be a term of the admission agreement that the employing authority which provides funding (or, if more than one, all of them) guarantees the liability of the body to pay all amounts due from it under these Regulations or the Benefits Regulations.

5

In this regulation—

a

“a non-statutory undertaker” means a body who, though not authorised by any statutory provision to do so, is primarily engaged in carrying on—

i

any railway, light railway, road transport, water transport, canal, inland navigation, dock harbour or pier; or

ii

any undertaking for the promotion of industrial development or the promotion of the development of tourist traffic; and

b

“a statutory undertaker” means a body authorised by any statutory provision to carry on—

i

any railway, light railway, road transport, water transport, canal, inland navigation, dock harbour or pier; or

ii

any undertaking for the promotion of industrial development or the promotion of the development of tourist traffic.