The Local Government Superannuation (Part-time Employees) Regulations 1993

Qualifying part-time employment

5.  Part IV of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations shall be amended as follows:

(a) in paragraph 1,—

(i) in sub-paragraph (2), the words “15 or more but” shall be deleted;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3), paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it shall be deleted;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (4), there shall be added the following words—

“or

(e) it is an employment in which the person is employed as a member of a fire brigade maintained in pursuance of the Fire Services Act 1947 on terms under which he is or may be required to engage in fire fighting;”(1);

(iv) for sub-paragraph (7) there shall be substituted the following—

“(7) Where a person has given a notification under regulation B1B and has ceased to be a pensionable employee, but before giving that notice he had been a pensionable employee in a qualifying part-time employment by virtue of an election made before 6th April 1988 under paragraph 1(1) above (before its amendment by the Local Government (Superannuation and Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 1988), he may only make a subsequent election under regulation B1C if he is in a qualifying part-time employment (or falls within some other description of pensionable employee in regulation B1).”(2);

(b) at the end, there shall be added the following paragraph:

“5.   Subject to regulation C6A, where on 17th August 1993 a person—

(a) is in a qualifying part-time employment,

(b) becomes on that date eligible to elect under regulation B1A(1) to become a pensionable employee by virtue of the amendment of paragraph 1(2) above by the Local Government Superannuation (Part-time Employees) Regulations 1993, and

(c) before 17th February 1994 gives notice of election under regulation B1A(1),

the election shall have effect in accordance with regulation B1A unless the notice specifies that the election shall have effect from the date on which he commenced the qualifying part-time employment or 1st January 1993 whichever is the later.”.

(1)

1947 c. 41.

(2)

S.I. 1988/466.