Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Made
6th May 1999
Coming into operation
25th June 1999
The Department of the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 9 of and Schedule 3 to The Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(1) and now vested in it(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf and after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appeared to it to be concerned, the local authorities with whom consultation appeared to it to be desirable and such representatives of other persons likely to be affected by the Regulations as appeared to it to be appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Superannuation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 25th June 1999.
(2) In these Regulations—
“the principal Regulations” means the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(3).
2. Part I of Schedule 20 to the principal Regulations shall be amended as follows–
(a)in paragraph 1 for the word “eight” in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted the word “five”; and
(b)in paragraph 3 for “9” there shall be substituted “6”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on
L.S.
R. Warburton
Assistant Secretary
6th May 1999.
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations amend the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (“the principal Regulations”).
Part I of Schedule 20 to the principal Regulations sets out the constitution of the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers— Superannuation Committee. Paragraph 1 thereof prescribes the appointment and composition of the Committee. Regulation 2 of these regulations amends paragraph 1 of that Schedule to provide that five (formerly eight) members shall be appointed as representative of scheduled bodies and admitted bodies, and five (formerly eight) members shall be appointed as representative of the classes of officers of scheduled bodies or admitted bodies affected by the regulations.
Regulation 2 also amends paragraph 3 of the said Schedule 20 to provide that the quorum of the Committee shall be 6 (formerly 9).
S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 504 Art. 7(1); S.I. 1976/424 (N.I. 6)
S.R. 1992 No. 547; relevant amending instrument is S.R. 1998 No. 133