The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013
PART 1Membership, contributions and benefits
Preliminary Provisions
1Citation, commencement and extent
2Introductory
Membership
3Active membership
3ACivil servants etc engaged in probation provision
4Restriction on eligibility for active membership
5Ending active membership
6Deferred and deferred pensioner members
7Pensioner members
8Pension credit and survivor members
Contributions
9Contributions
10Temporary reduction in contributions
11Contributions during absence from work
12Contributions during child-related leave
13Contributions during reserve forces service leave
14Contributions during absence for illness etc
15Employer contributions during absences
16Additional pension contributions
17Additional voluntary contributions
18Rights to return of contributions
19Exclusion of rights to return of contributions
20Meaning of pensionable pay
21Assumed pensionable pay
Pension accounts
22Pension accounts
23Active member's pension accounts
24Deferred member's pension account and deferred refund account
25Retirement pension accounts : active members
26Retirement pension accounts : deferred, deferred pensioner and pension credit members
27Flexible retirement pension accounts
28Deferred pensioner member accounts
29Pension credit accounts
Benefits
30Retirement benefits
31Award of additional pension
32Commencement of pensions
33Election for lump sum instead of pension
34Commutation and small pensions
Ill-health retirement
35Early payment of retirement pension on ill-health grounds: active members
36Role of the IRMP
37Special provision in respect of members receiving Tier 3 benefits
38Early payment of retirement pension on ill-health grounds: deferred and deferred pensioner members
39Calculation of ill-health pension amounts
Survivor benefits
40Death grants: active members
41Survivor benefits: partners of active members
42Survivor benefits: children of active members
43Death grants: deferred members, pension credit members and deferred pensioner members
44Survivor benefits: partners of deferred members and deferred pensioner members
45Survivor benefits: children of deferred members
46Death grants : pensioner members
47Survivor benefits : partners of pensioner members
48Survivor benefits: children of pensioner members
Adjustments of benefits
49No double entitlement
50Limit on total amount of benefits
51Guaranteed minimum pensions
52Pension debits
PART 2Administration
Administering authorities
53Scheme managers
54Admission agreement funds
55Administering authorities: governance compliance statement
56Accounts and audit
Strategies, statements and reports
57Pension fund annual report
58Funding strategy statement
59Pension administration strategy
60Statements of policy about exercise of discretionary functions
61Statements of policy concerning communications with members and Scheme employers
Actuarial valuations
62Actuarial valuations of pension funds
63Aggregate Scheme costs
64Special circumstances where revised actuarial valuations and certificates must be obtained
64ARevision of rates and adjustments certificate: Scheme employer contributions
64BRevision of actuarial certificates: exit payments
65Aggregate Scheme costs: revised certificates
66Supply of copies of valuations, certificates etc
Payments
67Employer's contributions
68Employer's further payments
69Payment by Scheme employers to administering authorities
70Additional costs arising from Scheme employer's level of performance
71Interest on late payments by Scheme employers
Decisions
72First instance decisions
73Notification of first instance decisions
74Applications for adjudication of disagreements
75Decisions of the adjudicator
76Reference of adjudications to administering authority
77Decisions of the administering authority on reconsideration
78Rights of representation
79Appeals by administering authorities
80Exchange of information
81Interest on late payment of certain benefits
82Payments due in respect of deceased persons
83Payments for persons incapable of managing their affairs
84Non-assignability
85Deduction and recovery of member's contributions
86Joint liability in respect of annual allowance charge
87Tax
88Pension increase under the Pensions Schemes Act 1993
89Annual benefit statements
90Information to be supplied by employees
Forfeiture
91Forfeiture of pension rights after conviction for employment-related offences
92Interim payments directions
93Recovery or retention where former member has misconduct obligation
94Adjustment of accounts following forfeiture etc
95Protection of guaranteed minimum pension rights
Transfers
96Rights to payment out of pension fund
97Contracting-out requirements affecting transfers out
98Bulk transfer (transfers of undertakings etc)
99Calculation of amount of transfer payment
100Inward transfers of pension rights
101Effect of acceptance of transfer value
102EU scheme transfers
103Changes of administering authority
104Change of administering authority in connection with probation service arrangements
PART 3Governance
105Delegation
106Local pension boards: establishment
107Local pension boards: membership
108Local pension boards: conflict of interest
109Local pension boards: guidance
110Scheme advisory board: establishment
111Scheme advisory board: membership
112Scheme advisory board: conflict of interest
113Scheme advisory board: funding
114Scheme actuary
115Employer cost cap
116Scheme advisory board: additional functions
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1Interpretation
“ the 2014 Regulations ” means the Local Government Pension...
SCHEDULE 2Scheme employers
PART 1
1In England, a county council, a district council, a London...
2In Wales, a county council or a county borough council....
3A joint board, body or committee appointed under any Act...
4A Mayoral development corporation within the meaning of section 198...
5A fire and rescue authority within the meaning of the...
6A police and crime commissioner.
7A chief constable within the meaning of section 2 of...
8The Commission for Local Administration in England.
9A probation trust established under section 5 of the Offender...
10The Chichester Harbour Conservancy.
11The Lee Valley Regional Park Authority.
12An integrated transport authority within the meaning of Part 5...
13The Broads Authority.
14A further education corporation, a sixth form college corporation or...
15The London Pensions Fund Authority.
16The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority.
17The Environment Agency.
18A National Park Authority established under Part 3 of the...
19An Education Action Forum within the meaning of section 11...
20A proprietor of an Academy within the meaning of section...
21A body set up by a local housing authority as...
22The Valuation Tribunal Service established under section 105 of the...
23A conservation board established under section 86 of the Countryside...
24A combined authority established by an order under section 103(1)...
25The North Wales Corporate Joint Committee (established by the North...
26The Mid Wales Corporate Joint Committee (established by the Mid...
27The South East Wales Corporate Joint Committee (established by the...
28The South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee (established by the...
PART 2
1The Board of Governors of the Museum of London.
2A body (other than a body listed in Part 1...
3A passenger transport executive.
4An institution designated by an order under section 129 of...
5An entity connected with a body listed in paragraphs 1...
6A company under the control of a body listed in...
7The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales.
8The Serious Organised Crime Agency.
9Transport for London.
10The London Transport Users' Committee.
11The Cultural Strategy Group for London.
12The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service.
13An urban development corporation.
13AA development corporation established under the New Towns Act 1981...
14The Secretary of State, in respect of persons specified in...
15Transport for the North.
PART 3
1The following bodies are admission bodies with whom an administering...
2An approval under paragraph 1(e) may be subject to such...
3The Scheme employer, if it is not also the administering...
4In the case of an admission body falling within the...
5If the admission body is exercising the functions of the...
6An admission agreement must require the admission body to carry...
7Notwithstanding paragraph 6, and subject to paragraph 8, the admission...
8Where, for any reason, it is not desirable for an...
9An admission agreement must include— (a) provision for it to...
10An admission agreement must include a requirement that the admission...
11When an administering authority makes an admission agreement it must...
12Where an admission body is such a body by virtue...
13Where an admission body of the description in paragraph 1(d)...
14An admission agreement may take effect on a date before...
PART 4
SCHEDULE 3Pension funds
PART 1
1The following bodies are required to maintain a pension fund...
PART 2
1Subject to paragraph 3, the appropriate administering authority for a...
2The appropriate administering authority for a former member of the...
3The Secretary of State may, on application by a Scheme...
4A direction under paragraph 3— (a) may only be given...
2013 No. 2356
Public Service Pensions, England And Wales

The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

M1These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7 and 12 of, and Schedule 3 to the Superannuation Act 1972 .

In accordance with section 7(5) of that Act, the Secretary of State consulted such associations of local authorities as appeared to the Secretary of State to be concerned; the local authorities with whom consultation appeared to the Secretary of State to be desirable; and such representatives of other persons likely to be affected by the Regulations as appeared to the Secretary of State to be appropriate.

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations: