Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

PART APRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

A1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 and shall come into operation on 1st March 1993.

Interpretation

A2.—(1) Schedule 1 contains a glossary of expressions; and in these regulations, any expression for which there is an entry in the first column of that Schedule has the meaning given against it in the second column or is to be construed in accordance with directions given against it in that column.

(2) In these regulations—

(a)any reference to a Table, or to a numbered Table, is a reference to the Table, or to the Table bearing that number, in the regulation or Schedule in which that reference occurs;

(b)reference to any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom or to any provision contained in an order, regulation, rule, scheme or other instrument having effect by virtue of such an Act shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended, extended, applied or re-enacted, by any other enactment and accordingly (without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this paragraph) any references to the Act of 1937 shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as including a reference to the Act of 1953;

(c)any reference to non-contributing service under a local Act scheme shall be construed as a reference to non-contributing service as defined in the relevant local Act scheme; and

(d)any reference to a person’s becoming an officer of an employing authority within 12 months after leaving employment subject to the Act of 1937 or a local Act scheme or within 12 months after ceasing to be a contributory employee or local Act contributor and any reference to the like effect shall be construed in relation to a person to whom section 6 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948(1), became applicable as a reference to his becoming an officer within 5 years, or such longer period as the appropriate Minister or the Secretary of State for Scotland, as the case may be, may in any particular case have allowed, after so leaving such employment or ceasing to be such an employee or contributor as aforesaid.

(3) For the purposes of exercising any rights which are dependent on, and limited in time by reference to, a person’s having become a pensionable employee, a person shall not be deemed to have become a pensionable employee on the date of coming into operation of these regulations if, immediately before that date, he was an officer within the meaning of the 1981 regulations and, without any break in employment, is a pensionable employee within the meaning of these regulations.