# The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: N.I.

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations implement changes relating to the Local Government Pension Scheme (“the LGPS (NI)”). They do so by modifying certain statutory provisions contained in or made under the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), which made changes to the transitional protections for certain persons who were members of previous versions of the LGPS (NI) to address unlawful age discrimination of the sort identified in the case of McCloud v Lord Chancellor [2018] EWCA Civ 2844 (“the McCloud Remedy”).
Regulation 2 makes provision about the McCloud Remedy in the context of the annual benefit statements (“ABSs”) that the Committee is required to issue to their active and deferred members every year under regulation 99 of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014. Regulation 2(2) and (3) provides that, where this regulation applies, provisions of the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 and the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 are disapplied for the purposes of preparing ABSs for the Scheme year 2023/24, meaning that the Committee would not be required to include information about the McCloud Remedy in that ABS. This provision has retrospective effect to 1 October 2023, meaning that it will apply in respect of any ABSs that have issued between that date and these Regulations coming into operation. However, regulation 2(4)(a) and (5) enables the Committee to determine that this should not apply in respect of a member or class of members. Regulation 2(4)(b) and (6) also allows the Committee to determine that this regulation should be extended, in respect of a member or class of members, to ABSs for the Scheme year 2024/25.
Regulations 3 and 4 correct an earlier drafting error.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/159/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2024/note
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