Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1974
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1974/520 |
| Year | 1974 |
1974 No. 520
PENSIONS
The Local Government Superannuation Regulations 197422ndMarch 1974
25thMarch 1974
1stApril 1974
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART A
PRELIMINARY
A 1. Title and commencement
A 2. General interpretation
A 3. Definitions
A 4. Definition of enactments
A 5. Application of regulations to Isles of Scilly
A 6. Persons treated as employees of a scheduled body
A 7. Treatment of certain additional duties
A 8. Deemed employments
A 9. Treatment of certain separate employments
PART B
SUPERANNUATION FUNDS AND CONTRIBUTORS THERETO
B 1. Superannuation funds
B 2. Pensionable employees
B 3. Appropriate superannuation fund
B 4. Power to admit employees of other bodies
B 5. Management of superannuation fund
B 6. Use and investment of superannuation fund's moneys
B 7. Periodical valuation of superannuation fund
B 8. Actuary's certificates
B 9. Accounts and audit
PART C
CONTRIBUTIONS AND CERTAIN OTHER PAYMENTS TO SUPERANNUATION FUNDS
C 1. Payment and amount of employee's contributions
C 2. Leave of absence from duty
C 3. Statement of remuneration received otherwise than from employing authority
C 4. Deduction from remuneration of employee's contributions and recovery thereof
C 5. Employer's contributions
C 6. Employer's additional contributions
C 7. Employer's further payments
C 8. Return of employee's contributions in certain cases
C 9. Reduction of returned contributions following payment in lieu of contributions
PART D
SERVICE
D 1. Reckonable service
D 2. Qualifying service
D 3. Exclusion from reckonable service and qualifying service
D 4. Previous employment under an officer
D 5. Treatment of certain contributing service as non-contributing service
D 6. Non-contributing service treated as contributing service on payment of additional contributory payments
D 7. Previous employment treated under regulation D4 or service treated under regulation D5 as non-contributing service to be treated as contributing service on payment of additional contributory payments
D 8. Continuation of additional contributory payments commenced under the former regulations
D 9. Non-contributing service treated at discretion of employing authority as contributing service
D10. Added years reckonable on payment as reckonable service
D11. Continuation of payments for added years commenced under the former regulations
D12. Increase of reckonable service on lump sum payment
D13. Increase of reckonable service on the making of periodical payments
D14. Increase of reckonable service at discretion of employing authority in the case of certain late entrants
D15. Previous service of certain variable-time employees
D16. Previous service of certain re-employed pensioners
D17. Calculation of part-time service
D18. Counting of non-contributing service
D19. Disregard of certain reckonable service in determining entitlement to benefits
D20. Counting of certain reckonable service and qualifying service in determining entitlement to benefits
D21. Disregard of certain reckonable service in calculating the amount of any benefit
D22. Counting of certain reckonable service in calculating the amount of any benefit
PART E
BENEFITS
E 1. Pensionable remuneration
E 2. Entitlement to retirement pension and retiring allowance
E 3. Amount of retirement pension and retiring allowance
E 4. Allocation of part of retirement pension
E 5. Entitlement to widow's short-term pension and widow's long-term pension
E 6. Amount of widow's short-term pension and widow's long-term pension
E 7. Widow's special short-term pension
E 8. Entitlement to children's short-term pension and children's long-term pension
E 9. Amount of children's short-term pension and children's long-term pension
E10. Children's special short-term pension
E11. Death gratuity
E12. Pensions of widowers, etc.
E13. Additional benefits granted at discretion of employing authority in the case of certain female nursing, etc. staff
E14. Reduction of retirement pension in the case of certain former teachers
E15. Reduction of retirement pension, etc., in the case of certain re-employed local government pensioners
E16. Combined benefits in the case of certain re-employed local government pensioners
E17. Separate benefits in the case of certain re-employed local government pensioners
E18. Adjustment of superannuation rights on death of certain re-employed local government pensioners
E19. Benefits of persons with no entitlement under the former regulations to a retiring allowance and widow's pension or to a widow's pension
PART F
NATIONAL INSURANCE MODIFICATION
Classes of employee
F 1. F 2. Arrangement of pensionable employees into classes
Case A
F 3. Persons within Case A
Case B
F 4. Persons within Case B
F 5. F 6. Reduction of contributions
F 7. Reduction of pension
F 8. Persons in concurrent, etc. employments
F 9. Old modification schemes
Cases C and D
F10. Persons within Cases C and D
F11. Reduction of contributions
F12. Reduction of payments for added years and additional contributory payments
F13. Reduction of pension
F14. Reduction of death gratuity
F15. Reduction of benefit attributable to added years, etc.
F16. Calculation of ill-health pension
F17. Persons in concurrent, etc. employments
Miscellaneous and consequential
F18. Contributions deemed to have been made
F19. Limitations on surrender, termination, etc., of pensions
PART G
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR CERTAIN CASES
G 1. Persons employed in voluntary schools, polytechnics, etc.
G 2. Employees of magistrates' courts committees
G 3. Certain employees of the committee of magistrates for the inner London area
G 4. Employees of probation and after-care committees
G 5. Medical inspectors of immigrants
G 6. Members of passenger transport executives and directors of subsidiaries thereof
G 7. Certain employees of the London Transport Executive
G 8. Certain employees of the Common Council
PART H
DETERMINATION OF QUESTIONS AND APPEALS
H 1. Initial determination of questions
H 2. Appeal by employee, etc.
H 3. Appeal by administering authority
H 4. Deemed service of notices
PART J
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND TRANSITORY PROVISIONS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION, ETC.
J 1. Definitions
J 2. Closure and transfer of superannuation funds maintained under the former regulations, etc.
J 3. Cessation of liability for equal annual charges
J 4. Discharge of administering authority's liability to make annual payments existing by reason of apportionment before the appointed day of a superannuation fund
J 5. Valuation of closed or transferred superannuation funds
J 6. Apportionment of superannuation fund
J 7. Certain persons employed on the appointed day in voluntary schools maintained by local education authorities for areas outside Greater London
J 8. Admission agreements
J 9. Preservation of rights and liabilities of certain persons to whom the Acts of 1937 to 1953, etc., applied as modified, etc., by a local Act or scheme
J10. Contributions of former clerks of the peace, etc.
J11. Certain liabilities of former local authorities
J12. Policy schemes
J13. Continuity of employment and preservation of status
J14. Discretionary powers
J15. Contributions of transferred manual workers
J16. Modification of the regulations in their application to certain transferred employees previously employed by the Manchester Corporation, etc.
J17. Persons transferred to scheduled bodies under section 18(4)(a) of the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973
PART K
PERSONS CEASING TO BE EMPLOYED AFTER 30TH MARCH 1972 AND BEFORE THE APPOINTED DAY
K 1. Retrospective application
K 2. Right to opt out
PART L
MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL
L 1. Information to be supplied by certain employees
L 2. Decisions to be taken by scheduled bodies as to status of employees
L 3. Decisions to be taken by administering authorities as to status of employees
L 4. Notification of decisions as to status
L 5. Payments by employing authorities to administering authorities
L 6. Transmission of documents and information between authorities
L 7. Further provisions as to transmission of documents and information
L 8. Decisions to be taken by employing authorities as to benefits and notification thereof
L 9. Decisions to be taken by administering authorities as to benefits and notification thereof
L10. Payments due in respect of deceased persons
L11. Certificates as to reduction in remuneration
L12. Provision as to payments in lieu of contributions
L13. Forfeiture of rights
L14. Benefits not assignable
L15. Age of compulsory retirement
PART M
AMENDMENTS, REVOCATIONS AND REPEALS
M 1. Amendments
M 2. Revocations and repeals
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1—PENSIONABLE EMPLOYEES
Part I Bodies whose whole-time employees are to be compulsorily superannuable
Part II Certain persons who may be superannuable
SCHEDULE 2
Modifications to the Trustee Investments Act 1961 in its application to investment of superannuation fund's moneys
SCHEDULE 3—ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORY PAYMENTS
Part I Calculation of sum payable
Part II Provisions applicable while any sum outstanding
SCHEDULE 4
Limitation on payment by way of additional contributions
SCHEDULE 5
Provisions applicable as respects additional contributions while any amount remains outstanding
SCHEDULE 6
Amount to be paid for added years
SCHEDULE 7
Maximum length of additional periods purchased by employee or granted at discretion of employing authority
SCHEDULE 8—AMOUNT TO BE PAID FOR ADDITIONAL PERIOD
Part I Lump sum payment
Part II Periodical payments
SCHEDULE 9
Increase of reckonable service on account of ill-health or death in service
SCHEDULE 10
Reduction of benefits under regulation E3(9)
SCHEDULE 11
Allocation of part of retirement pension
SCHEDULE 12
Modifications to Part E in its application to persons with no entitlement under the former regulations to a retiring allowance and widow's pension or to a widow's pension
SCHEDULE 13
Flat rate reduction of voluntary payments
SCHEDULE 14—MODIFICATIONS TO THE REGULATIONS IN THEIR APPLICATION TO SPECIAL CASES
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