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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-no-2-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3004",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-no-2-regulations-2003",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997 (“the principal Regulations”) which comprise the Local Government Pension Scheme (“the Scheme”).\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 5 of the principal Regulations by substituting new regulations 5, 5A and 5B, which provide for administering authorities to make admission agreements to enable employees of non-Scheme employers to be members of the Scheme. The main changes are—\nto separate the requirements for “community” and “transferee” admission bodies into separate regulations;\nto extend the definition of transferee admission body, to include bodies (other than community admission bodies) that carry out a public service and have been approved by the Secretary of State for admission to the Scheme; and\nto require an indemnity or bond to be entered into by the transferee admission body where it is identified as being necessary following a risk assessment.\nThe amended regulation 5 of the principal Regulations makes provision for the admission of community admission bodies. These are bodies that provide public services, otherwise than for the purposes of gain, and which have links with local government.\nThe inserted regulation 5A of the principal Regulations makes provision for the admission of transferee admission bodies. These are bodies that either provide a service or assets transferred from Scheme employers, or carry out a public service and have been approved by the Secretary of State for admission to the Scheme.\nThe inserted regulation 5B of the principal Regulations makes further provisions in relation to admission agreements with both types of admission bodies.\nRegulation 4 makes a consequential amendment to regulation 6(10) of the principal Regulations to provide when employees of the transferee admission bodies are treated as leaving local government employment for the purposes of the Scheme.\nRegulation 5 amends regulation 32(11) of the principal Regulations, which covers re-employed and rejoining deferred members, to provide that for members who have accrued Scheme membership with certain admission bodies, specified periods of such membership may not be aggregated in calculating lump sum benefits.\nRegulation 6 amends regulation 78(2A) of the principal Regulations, which deals with special circumstances where revised actuarial valuations and certificates must be obtained.\nRegulations 7 and 9 make consequential amendments to references to the amended provisions in Schedules 1 and 4 to the principal Regulations. Regulation 8 substitutes a new Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations, as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.\nThese Regulations take effect from 1st January 2003. Section 12 of the Superannuation Act 1972 provides that regulations made under section 7 of that Act may have retrospective effect. However, regulation 10 provides that the amendments made by these Regulations do not affect admission agreements entered into before the date that these Regulations came into force.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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