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The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013
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- reg. 30(13) inserted by 2016 c. 12 Sch. 6 para. 5(1)(a)
- reg. 68A inserted by 2016 c. 12 Sch. 6 para. 5(1)(b)
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31.—(1) A Scheme employer may resolve to award—
(a)an active member, or
(b)a member who was an active member who was dismissed by reason of redundancy, or business efficiency, or whose employment was terminated by mutual consent on grounds of business efficiency,
additional annual pension of, in total (including any additional pension purchased by the Scheme employer under regulation 16), not more than the additional pension limit payable from the same date as any pension payable under other provisions of these Regulations from the pension account to which the additional pension is attached, provided that, in the case of a member falling within sub-paragraph (b), the resolution to award additional pension is made within 6 months of the date the member's employment ended.
(2) The additional pension limit is £6,500 from 1st April 2014 and that figure is increased on 1st April 2015, and each subsequent 1st April, by the amount (where it is greater than zero) by which it would be increased if it were a pension beginning on 1st April 2013 to which the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 M1 applied.
(3) An award of additional pension under—
(a)paragraph (1)(a) is to be credited to the relevant active member pension account in the Scheme year in which the resolution to award the additional pension is made; and
(b)paragraph (1)(b) is to be treated as credited to the relevant active member pension account on the day before the date of termination of employment.
(4) The restrictions specified in paragraph (1) apply to Scheme employers which have power under section 1 of the Localism Act 2011 M2 (local authority's general power of competence) or section 5A(1) of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 M3 (powers of fire and rescue authorities) in the exercise of those powers.
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M32004 c. 21; section 5A was inserted by section 9 of the Localism Act 2011.
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