
2006 No. 6
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Local Government Pension Scheme (Civil Partnership) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006
Made 13th January 2006
Coming into operation 10th February 2006

The Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 9 and 14 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 and now vested in it.

In accordance with Article 9 of that Order the Department has consulted with the Northern Ireland Local Government Association, the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee and representatives of those whom the Department considers to be likely to be affected by the Regulations:
Citation, commencement and retrospection
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The Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001
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(1) The Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) In regulation 36 (death benefits) for paragraph (1)(b)(i) there shall be substituted—“
(i) if the deceased leaves a surviving spouse or spouses, or a surviving civil partner, the surviving spouse or all of them, or the surviving civil partner, as the case may be, shall be entitled to an annual allowance or lump sum; and”.
Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
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Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
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The Local Government (Early Termination of Employment) (Discretionary Compensation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
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Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 13th January 2006
J Ritchie
A senior officer of the
Department of the Environment
