Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1986
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1986/24 |
| Year | 1986 |
1986 No. 24
PENSIONS
The Local Government Superannuation Regulations 198613thJanuary 1986
7thFebruary 1986
1stMarch 1986
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART A
PRELIMINARY
A 1. Title and commencement
A 2. Interpretation
A 3. Application of regulations to Isles of Scilly
PART B
PENSIONABLE EMPLOYMENT
B 1. Pensionable employees
B 2. Persons treated as employees of a scheduled body
B 3. Power to admit employees of other bodies
B 4. Further provision as to admission of employees of other bodies
B 5. Treatment of certain additional duties
B 6. Treatment of certain separate employments
B 7. Deemed employments
B 8. Age of compulsory retirement
PART C
PAYMENTS BY EMPLOYEES
C 1. Appropriate superannuation fund
C 2. Payment and amount of employee's contributions
C 3. Leave of absence from duty
C 4. Absence due to trade dispute
C 5. Lump sum payment to increase reckonable service
C 6. Periodical payments to increase reckonable service
C 7. Payment by manual worker in respect of previous service
C 8. Payments to avoid reduction of retiring allowance and death grant
C 9. Continuation of certain payments
C10. Statement of remuneration received otherwise than from employing
authority
C11. Deduction and recovery of employee's contributions
C12. Return of employee's contributions in certain cases
C13. Effect of return to local government on right to a return of
contributions
C14. Restoration of right to reckon service in transitional cases where
there has been a return of contributions
C15. Reduction of returned contributions following payment in lieu of
contributions
C16. Limitation of payments
PART D
SERVICE
D 1. Reckonable service
D 2. Qualifying service
D 3. Exclusion from reckonable service and qualifying service
D 4. Increase of reckonable service on lump sum payment
D 5. Increase of reckonable service on making periodical payments
D 6. Increase of reckonable service on completion or cessation of
payments under previous regulations
D 7. Increase of reckonable service at discretion of employing authority
D 8. Reduction of added years reckonable on payment as reckonable
service
D 9. Previous service of certain whole-time manual workers
D10. Previous service of certain variable-time employees
D11. Previous service of certain re-employed pensioners
PART E
BENEFITS
E 1. Guaranteed minimum pension for certain pensionable employees
and their widows
E 2. Entitlement to retirement pension and retiring allowance
E 3. Amount of retirement pension and retiring allowance
E 4. Ill-health retirement grant
E 5. Entitlement to widow's short-term and long-term pensions
E 6. Amounts of widow's short-term and long-term pensions
E 7. Widow's special short-term pension
E 8. Entitlement to children's short-term and long-term pensions
E 9. Amounts of children's short-term and long-term pensions
E10. Children's special short-term pension
E11. Death grant
E12. Pensions of widowers etc
E13. Discretionary additional benefits for certain female nursing staff
E14. Reduction of retirement pension in the case of certain former teachers
E15. Reduction of retirement pension in the case of certain re-employed
pensioners
E16. Combined benefits in the case of certain re-employed pensioners
E17. Separate benefits in the case of certain re-employed pensioners
E18. Adjustment of superannuation rights on death of certain re-employed
pensioners
E19. Benefits of certain persons employed before April 1974
E20. Surrender of part of retirement pension
E21. Power to compound certain small pensions
E22. Pensionable remuneration
E23. Pay restraint not to affect pensionable remuneration in certain cases
E24. Certificates as to reduction in remuneration
E25. Calculation of part-time service
E26. Counting of non-contributing service
E27. Disregard of certain reckonable service in determining entitlement to
benefits
E28. Counting of certain reckonable service and qualifying service in
determining entitlement to benefits
E29. Disregard of certain reckonable service in calculating amount of
benefits
E30. Counting of certain reckonable service in calculating amount of
benefits
E31. National Insurance
E32. Benefits not assignable
PART F
WAR SERVICE
F 1. Interpretation etc
F 2. War service
F 3. Election as to war service
F 4. Modified application of regulation F3 in certain cases
F 5. Notice of election
F 6. Reckonable service and benefits
F 7. Revision of certain elections
PART G
MODIFICATION IN SPECIAL CASES
G 1. Employees of magistrates' courts committees
G 2. Certain employees of the committee of magistrates for the inner
London area
G 3. Employees of probation committees
G 4. Coroners
G 5. Certain employees of City of London employing bodies
G 6. Certain former contributory employees
G 7. Former clerks of the peace etc
G 8. Power to agree notional remuneration
G 9. Transfers from and to Scotland
G10. Overseas employment
PART H
LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION ETC
H 1. Interpretation
H 2. Continuity of employment and preservation of status
H 3. Discretionary powers
H 4. Contributions of transferred manual workers
H 5. Former employees of Manchester Corporation
H 6. Persons transferred to scheduled bodies under section 18(4)(a) of the
National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973
H 7. Gratuities etc. granted by former local authorities
H 8. Policy schemes
PART J
INTERCHANGE ETC
J 1. Interpretation
J 2. Outwards transfers
J 3. Additional transfer value on outwards transfer in certain cases
J 4. Amount of transfer value etc.
J 5. Termination of right to payment out of fund authority's superannuation
fund
J 6. Rights where a person transfers to the Communities' scheme and
leaves without a right to either an immediate or prospective pension
J 7. Compound interest on certain sums
J 8. Inward transfers
J 9. Right to reckon service
J10. Increase in return of contributions
J11. National Insurance modification for flat-rate retirement pension
J12. National Insurance modification for graduated retirement pension
J13. Certain persons who become subject to other superannuation
schemes
J14. Transfer of pension rights
PART K
GRATUITIES
K 1. Power to grant gratuities
K 2. Application to certain other bodies
PART L
INJURY ALLOWANCES ETC.
L 1. Interpretation
L 2. Persons to whom Part L applies
L 3. Loss of employment through permanent incapacity
L 4. Reduction in remuneration
L 5. Allowances for pensioners
L 6. Death benefits
L 7. The relevant body
L 8. Rights and payments to be taken into account in determining amount
of benefit
L 9. Retrospective effect
L10. Finance
L11. Appeals
L12. Notice of decisions
PART M
FORFEITURE ETC.
M 1. Forfeiture of rights
M 2. Transfer of certain sums from the superannuation fund
M 3. Recovery or retention by employing authority of certain sums from
the superannuation fund
PART N
DECISIONS AND APPEALS
N 1. Initial decisions
N 2. Decisions by employing authorities as to status of employees
N 3. Decisions by administering authorities as to status of employees
N 4. Decisions by administering authorities as to war service
N 5. Decisions by employing authorities as to benefits
N 6. Decisions by administering authorities as to benefits
N 7. Notification of decisions
N 8. Appeals
PART P
SUPERANNUATION FUNDS AND PAYMENTS BY AUTHORITIES
P 1. Superannuation funds
P 2. Management of superannuation fund
P 3. Use and investment of superannuation fund's moneys
P 4. Accounts and audit
P 5. Periodical valuation of superannuation fund
P 6. Actuary's certificates
P 7. Employer's contributions
P 8. Employer's additional contributions
P 9. Employer's further payments
P10. Payments by employing authorities to administering authorities
P11. Extra charges resulting from early retirement of chief officers
P12. Liability for combined benefits
P13. Provision as to protection of pensions
PART Q
INTERFUND ADJUSTMENTS
Q 1. Interpretation
Q 2. Change of local government employment and fund authority
Q 3. Partial forfeitures
Q 4. Greater London Council housing staff transfers
PART R
MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES OF AUTHORITIES
R 1. Information to be supplied by certain employees
R 2. Records to be kept by authorities
R 3. Transmission of documents and information
R 4. Payments due in respect of deceased persons
R 5. Provisions as to contributions equivalent premiums
PART S
MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL
S 1. Periods of time
S 2. Application to benefits in respect of former employments
S 3. Revocations
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1—GLOSSARY OF EXPRESSIONS
SCHEDULE 2—PENSIONABLE EMPLOYEES
SCHEDULE 3—MAXIMUM LENGTH OF ADDITIONAL PERIODS
SCHEDULE 4—AMOUNT TO BE PAID FOR ADDITIONAL PERIOD
Part I Lump Sum Payment
Part II Periodical Payments
SCHEDULE 5—PAYMENT TO AVOID REDUCTION OF RETIRING ALLOWANCE
Part I Lump Sum Payment
Part II Instalments
Part III Additional Contributions
Part IV Uncompleted Payments
SCHEDULE 6—OUTSTANDING PAYMENTS UNDER 1974 REGULATIONS
SCHEDULE 7—LIMITATION OF PAYMENTS UNDER PART C
SCHEDULE 8—UNCOMPLETED PAYMENT OF ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
SCHEDULE 9—ADDITIONAL RECKONABLE SERVICE FOR ILL-HEALTH
SCHEDULE 10—REDUCTION OF BENEFITS ON EARLY PAYMENT
SCHEDULE 11—MODIFICATIONS TO PART E WHERE NO RIGHT TO RETIRING ALLOWANCE ETC.
SCHEDULE 12—SURRENDER OF PART OF RETIREMENT PENSION
Part I Limits on Amount Surrendered
Part II Procedure
SCHEDULE 13—WOMEN'S SERVICES
SCHEDULE 14—PUBLIC SERVICE SCHEMES
SCHEDULE 15—MODIFICATION IN SPECIAL CASES
Part I Employees of Magistrates' Courts Committees
Part II Certain Employees of the Committee of Magistrates for the Inner London Area
Part III Employees of Probation Committees
Part IV Coroners
Part V Certain Employees of City of London Employing Bodies
SCHEDULE 16—CALCULATION OF TRANSFER VALUES
SCHEDULE 17—CALCULATION OF RECKONABLE SERVICE TO BE CREDITED UNDER REGULATION J9(1)(a)
SCHEDULE 18—FUND APPORTIONMENT WHERE 100 OR MORE TRANSFER THEIR PENSION RIGHTS UNDER REGULATION J14
SCHEDULE 19—FUND APPORTIONMENT FOR CHANGES OF FUND WITHIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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