- Accrued actuarial liabilities
means the actual and potential liabilities of the fund in connection with any service or employment before the change of employment takes place.
- accrued modification
means the amount by which the accrued pension would be reduced in connection with the retirement pension under section 28 of the Social Security Act 1975 or corresponding provisions of earlier legislation and graduated retirement benefit under section 36 of the Insurance Act or corresponding provisions of earlier legislation.
- accrued pension
means the annual retirement pension (however named) to which, having regard to regulations E1(3) and E31(2) and apart from any reduction falling to be made to that pension in connection with a retirement pension under section 28 of the Social Security Act 1975 or corresponding provisions of earlier legislation or graduated retirement benefit under section 36 of the Insurance Act or corresponding provisions of earlier legislation, the person would have become entitled if, on the date when he ceased to be employed in his local government employment— (a) he had reached the age of 65;
- accrued retiring allowance
means the lump sum retiring allowance (however named) to which the person would have become entitled if, on the date when he ceased to be employed in his local government employment— (a) he had reached the age of 65;
- benefit
includes a return of contributions and a benefit specified in regulation F6(12) or (16).
- benefits
means any allowance or lump sum payable under this Part;
- City of London employing body
means the Common Council, the magistrates' courts committee for the City of London, the probation committee for the City of London probation area, or the Board of Governors of the Museum of London.
- Community institution
includes a body treated as one of the Communities' institutions for the purposes of the Communities' scheme;
- companies
includes companies established under the law of any territory outside the United Kingdom;
- deceased employee
means a person with war service who died after 31st March 1978 and in relation to whom the conditions specified in regulation F3(2) to (8) were or are deemed to have been satisfied when he died;
- excess remuneration
means, in relation to a retired officer of the armed forces of the Crown who is re-employed in those forces, any service pension drawn in respect of such period of re-employment, or any addition to the normal pay attaching to the post in which the officer is re-employed which is granted by reason of the officer's former employment in those forces;
- fund authority
means— (a) in the application of regulations 12 to 16 to a person, the body maintaining the superannuation fund to which he was a contributor immediately before he ceased to be employed in his local government employment or, if that fund has been closed, the body which would be liable to pay him his pension in respect of that employment if he had been entitled to receive payment of such a pension when he ceased to be employed in his local government employment, and (b) in the application of regulations JS to J12 to a person, the body maintaining the superannuation fund to which he became a contributor after he ceased to be employed in his non-local government employment or, if that fund has been closed— (a) if when the fund was closed he was not employed in local government employment, the body which would be liable to pay him his pension in respect of the local government employment in question if he had been entitled to receive payment of such a pension when he ceased to be employed in that employment;
- guardian
means a person who is not entitled in respect of the deceased to either—
- Health Service regulations
means the National Health Service (Superannuation) Regulations 1961 to 1973, as in force immediately before 1st April 1974;
- listed securities
means securities in respect of which a listing has been granted and not withdrawn— (a) on a stock exchange in the United Kingdom which is a recognised stock exchange within the meaning of the Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Act 1958, or (b) on a stock exchange outside the United Kingdom of international repute;
- new employing body
means the body which has become the employing authority in relation to a person so transferred or appointed;
- new employment
means employment to which a person has been so transferred or appointed;
- new fund authority
means, in relation to a person transferred, the appropriate administering authority on 1st April 1986;
- new local government employment
has the same meaning as in regulation Q2(1)(a) and “new employing authority” is to be construed accordingly;
- non-effective pay
includes naval, military and air force pensions, retired pay, and gratuities (other than war gratuities to which section 23 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1945, which exempted war gratuities from income tax, applies and gratuities paid to former members of the Palestine Police Force);
- occupational pension scheme
means any scheme or arrangement comprised in one or more instruments or agreements and having, or being capable of having, effect in relation to one or more descriptions or categories of employments so as to provide benefits, in the form of pensions or otherwise, payable on termination of service, or on death or retirement, to or in respect of earners with qualifying service in an employment of any such description or category;
- potentially eligible child
means a child who might become an eligible child on the woman's death.
- previous employing authority
means, in relation to a person transferred, the Greater London Council;
- previous fund authority
has the same meaning as in regulation Q2(1)(b);
- previous local government employment
has the same meaning as in regulation Q2(1)(a) and “previous employing authority” is to be construed accordingly.
- proper advice
means the advice of a person, including an officer of theirs, who is reasonably believed by the administering authority to be qualified by his ability in and practical experience of financial matters;
- public service scheme
means a water company scheme, the Universities' Superannuation Scheme, and any occupational pension scheme— (a) which cannot come into force, or be amended, without the scheme or amendment being approved by a Minister of the Crown or government department, and (b) which includes provisions for any such whole-time service as is described in regulation F2(1), rendered before becoming entitled to participate in the scheme, to be reckonable as service in respect of which benefits are payable under the scheme;
- reckonable service
includes any period by reference to which an additional benefit has been granted under regulation E13 or under regulation 13 of the Benefits regulations (both of which concern additional benefits for certain female nursing staff).
- relevant absence
means a period for which a person to whom this regulation applies was absent from duty as mentioned in paragraph (1);
- relevant body
has the meaning given by regulation L7;
- relevant contribution period
means a period which— (a) is coextensive with one of the intervals at which a person to whom this regulation applies was required under regulation C2(1) to contribute to the appropriate superannuation fund, and (b) includes all or part of a relevant absence;
- relevant employment
has the meaning given by regulation L2(2).
- relevant limitation
means a limitation of remuneration—
- relevant remuneration
means any remuneration which is material for any of the purposes of regulation E22 (pensionable remuneration).
- relevant Scottish employment
means—
- retirement pension
includes a short service grant under the Benefits regulations, an ill-health grant under regulation E4, a superannuation allowance under Part I of the Act of 1937, and an annual pension under the former regulations.
- returned contributions
means an amount payable under regulation C12 to or in respect of a pensionable employee by way of a return of contributions.
- securities
includes shares, stock and debentures;
- service
means service or employment with any employer.
- single holding
means investments— (a) in securities of, or in units or other shares of the investments subject to the trusts of unit trust schemes managed by, or in loans to or deposits with, any one body, or (b) in the acquisition, development or management of, or in any advance of money upon the security of, any one piece of land, or (c) in the acquisition of any one chattel;
- statutory resolution
means, in relation to a scheduled body, a resolution passed in the manner in which an ordinary resolution of the body may be passed, except that 28 days' notice of the meeting at which the resolution was passed and of the terms of the resolution and of the fact that it is to be proposed at that meeting must have been given in the manner in which notice for convening ordinary meetings of the body may be given.
- the indexed training rate
means the annual rate at which an official pension within the meaning of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 would for the time being be payable if it had begun on 1st April 1974 and had then been payable at an annual rate of £250.
- the local Act superannuation fund
has the same meaning as in the Local Government Superannuation (City of London) Regulations 1977.”
- the Manchester pension fund
means the pension fund maintained immediately before 1st April 1974 by the Manchester City Council for the officers and servants of the Manchester Corporation;
- the Manchester pension provisions
means the provisions of the enactments, and of the schemes and other instruments in force thereunder immediately before 1st April 1974, relating to the Manchester pension fund (including the provisions of the Acts of 1937 to 1953 and of any relevant instruments thereunder so far as applicable to that fund).
- trade dispute
has the meaning given by section 29 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974.
- transferred employee
means— (a) a person transferred on or after 1st April 1974— (a) by or under an order made under section 84 of the London Government Act 1963 or an agreement made under section 24(7) of that Act;