The Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1986

Power to agree notional remuneration

G8.—(1) A scheduled body may from time to time enter into an agreement with the bodies or persons representative of any class or description of employee of that authority specifying the method by which an amount representing the whole of the remuneration of a member of that class or, as the case may be, an employee of that description or such part of his remuneration as is specified in the agreement shall, in respect of the period during which the agreement remains in force, be determined.

(2) Where an employee of a scheduled body belongs to a class or description of employee in relation to which an agreement entered into by that body under paragraph (1) is in force, then in respect of the period during which that agreement remains in force and the employee in his employment under that body remains an employee of that class or description, the amount determined in relation to him in accordance with the method specified in the agreement as the amount representing the whole of his remuneration or, as the case may be, such part of his remuneration as is specified in the agreement, shall be deemed for the purposes of these regulations to be his remuneration or, as the case may be, such part of his remuneration as is so specified.

(3) Where a scheduled body enter into an agreement under paragraph (1) they shall send a written notification of that fact, which shall include a conspicuous statement directing the attention of the employee to the place at which he may obtain information about details of the agreement, to every employee of theirs who is a member of a class or, as the case may be, an employee of a description, to which the agreement relates.

(4) The notification required by paragraph (3) shall be sent—

(a) in the case of a person in the employment of the scheduled body on the date on which the agreement was entered into, as soon as is reasonably practicable after that date; and

(b) in the case of a person entering the employment of that body after that date, within 3 months after he has entered that employment.