Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Employees of transferee admission bodiesN.I.

5.[F1(1) Subject to the requirements of this regulation and regulation 6 (admission agreements – further provisions), the Committee may make an admission agreement with any transferee admission body.

(2) A transferee admission body is a body, other than a community admission body, that is providing or will provide—

(a)a service or assets in connection with the exercise of a function of an employing authority as a result of the transfer of the service or assets by means of a contract or other arrangement; or

(b)a public service and which is approved by the Department for the purposes of admission to the Scheme.

(3) In the case of an admission agreement with a transferee admission body under paragraph (2)(a) the employing authority, if it is not also the Committee, must be a party to the admission agreement.

[F2(3A) Where a (2)(a) transferee admission body is exercising the functions of an employing authority in connection with more than one contract or other arrangement under paragraph (2)(a), the Committee and the admission agreement body shall enter into a separate admission agreement in respect of each contract or arrangement.]

(4) Approval under paragraph (2)(b) 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.

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(8) This paragraph applies where a transferee admission body undertakes to meet [F4the relevant requirements of this regulation and regulation 6, and]

(a)in the case of a body under paragraph (2)(a), the employing authority undertakes to meet the requirements of this regulation; or

(b)in the case of a body under paragraph (2)(b), the Department approves the body for admission to the Scheme and the conditions, if any, to which the approval is subject, have been met.

(9) Where paragraph (8) applies—

(a)the Committee must admit to the Scheme the eligible employees of the transferee admission body specified by the body; and

(b)where it does so, the terms on which it does so are the admission agreement for the purposes of these Regulations and the Benefits Regulations.

(10) Only those employees of the transferee admission body who are employed in connection with the provision of a service or assets mentioned in paragraph (2) are eligible to be designated, under [F5regulation 6(2)], members of the Scheme.]