Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Employer’s further payments

36.—(1) Any extra charge on the fund or an admission agreement fund resulting from a member becoming entitled to benefits calculated under regulation 20(2)(b), 20(3)(b) (early leavers: ill-health) or 31 (early payment of pension: ill-health) of the Benefits Regulations must be repaid to the fund or an admission agreement fund by the employing authority concerned.

(2) The Committee may require the employing authority concerned to make additional payments to the fund or an admission agreement fund in respect of any extra charge on the fund or admission agreement fund resulting from retirement benefits becoming immediately payable to a member under—

(a)regulation 18 (flexible retirement);

(b)regulation 19 (early leavers: business efficiency and redundancy); or

(c)regulation 30 (choice of early payment of pension),

of the Benefits Regulations, including the cost, as calculated by the fund’s actuary, incurred by the fund or an admission agreement fund as a result of a waiver of or determination not to apply such reduction as provided for in regulation 18(3) or 30(5) of those Regulations.

(3) Any additional payments that are due under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be made, if the Committee agrees, by—

(a)a single payment of an amount determined by the Committee on the advice of an actuary appointed by it; or

(b)instalments, each of an amount determined by the Committee on the advice of an actuary appointed by it, covering a period not exceeding 5 years, or such longer period as the Committee may allow, the first and subsequent instalments becoming payable as agreed between the Committee and the employing authority.