The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

2.—(1) An admission body is— N.I.

(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 1986 M1 ;

(g) the governing body of an institution of further education within the meaning of the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 M2 ; and

(h) a body that is providing or will provide—

(i) 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

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

(2) In this paragraph—

(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.

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3) as amended by S.I.1993/2810 (N.I. 12) and S.I. 1997/1772 (N.I. 15).

M2 S.I. 1997/1772 (N.I. 15).