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(1) These Regulations may be cited as The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 and except as provided for by paragraph (2), shall come into operation on 31st May 2020.
(2) These Regulations shall come into effect as follows—
(a) regulations 2 to 4 from 1st April 2015; and
(b) regulations 5 to 7 from 18th November 2019.
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The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 are amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.
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In regulations 52(4)(a), 54(3)(a), 54(4)(a), 55(3)(a) and 55(4)(a) (survivor benefits: partners and children of pensioner members) after “earned pension” insert “(including any amount added under regulations 39(1)(a) or 39(2)(a) (enhancement of member’s tier 1 and tier 2 ill-health benefits))”.
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For regulation 57(2) (limit on total amount of benefits payable) substitute—“
(2) In this regulation “lifetime allowance” is to be construed in accordance with section 218 of, and Schedule 36 to, the 2004 Finance Act, and section 44 of, and Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 2014 and, where applicable, is to include primary protection, enhanced protection, fixed protection or individual protection within the meaning of those provisions.”.
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The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 are amended in accordance with regulation 6.
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In paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 3 (the 85 year rule: transitional provisions and savings)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (aa), omit “former”; and
(b) in sub-paragraph (c) omit “, or regulation 30(1) (choice of early payment of pension) of the Benefits Regulations”.
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Regulations 71 and 72 are revoked in The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 5th May 2020
Anthony Carleton
A senior officer of the Department for Communities
The Department of Finance consents to these RegulationsSealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 5th May 2020
Emer Morelli
A senior officer of the Department of Finance
