The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995

Power to extend eligibility to employees of other bodies (“admission agreements”)

B7.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, an administering authority may make an agreement (in these regulations referred to as “an admission agreement”) with any body specified in Schedule B4 (“the employing body”), providing for employees of the employing body to be eligible to be members of the pension fund maintained by the administering authority.

(2) Subject to paragraph (4), an admission agreement may provide for employees, or any specified class or classes of employees, of the employing body to be members of the Scheme.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4) and regulation B10(3), these regulations apply to a person who is such an employee as is mentioned in paragraph (“an admission agreement employee”) and has become a member of the Scheme as if the employing body were an LGPS employer.

(4) An admission agreement may not provide for any person to be a member if he would be ineligible to be a member by virtue of regulation B2(1) or (3), B3, B8 or B9 if he were an employee of an LGPS employer.

(5) Except as provided in paragraphs (6) and (7), an admission agreement may not modify the application of these regulations to any employee so that he has any greater or lesser rights or liabilities than those he would have if he became a member of the Scheme by virtue of regulation B1.

(6) An admission agreement may provide that any previous period of employment of an employee by the employing body is to count to such extent as there specified as a period of deemed membership of the Scheme.

(7) An admission agreement made with the Commission for the New Towns may provide that a percentage (not exceeding 4.4 per cent.) of the remuneration of employees of a description specified in the agreement shall be treated as not being remuneration for the purposes of these regulations.

(8) An admission agreement—

(a) shall provide that the agreement shall cease to have effect if the employing body ceases to be a body specified in Schedule B4; and

(b) may make such other provision for, and contain such incidental provisions relating to, its cessation as the parties consider appropriate.

(9) On making an admission agreement an administering authority shall immediately inform the Secretary of State of the name of the employing body and the date from which the agreement takes effect.

(10) An admission agreement may be made by an appropriate administering authority with an employing body whether or not that body exercises its functions in the same part of the United Kingdom as the appropriate administering authority exercise their functions.