The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1993

Relevant employment

3.  In regulation B3 of the principal Regulations–

(a)in paragraph (2)(b) the words “15 or more but” shall be deleted;

(b)for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:–

“(3) If a person is in two or more employments under a single scheduled body, and in each of the employments the contractual weeks in every period of 12 months are 35 or more and the contractual hours in every week are fewer than 30, then each of the employments is a relevant employment but an election under this regulation or regulation B4B or notification under regulation B4A in respect of any one of them is of no effect unless elections or notifications are made in respect of all of them.”;

(c)paragraph (4) shall be deleted;

(d)in paragraph (6)(f) there shall be added, after the word “1947”, the words–

“who is employed on terms under which he is or may be required to engage in fire fighting.”;

(e)for paragraph (7) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:–

“(7) Where a person has given a notification under regulation B4A and has ceased to be a pensionable employee, but before giving that notification he had been a pensionable employee in a relevant employment by virtue of an election made before 6th April 1988 under paragraph (1) above (before its amendment by the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1989(1)), he may only make a subsequent election under regulation B4B if he is in a relevant employment (or falls within some other description of pensionable employee in regulation B2).”; and

(f)there shall be added at the end the following paragraph:–

“(9) Subject to regulation C6A, where on 31st December 1993 a person–

(a)is in a relevant employment,

(b)becomes on that date eligible to elect under paragraph (1) to become a pensionable employee by virtue of the amendment of this Regulation by the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1993; and

(c)before 30th June 1994 elects to become a pensionable employee,

his period of reckonable service shall be calculated from the date of that election unless he further elects that it shall be calculated from the later of the date on which he commenced the relevant employment or 1st January 1993.”.