{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-D11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-D11.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/177",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/D11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "D11",
  "heading": "Entitlement to deferred retirement benefits (“preserved benefits”)",
  "text": "(1) If a member who ceases to hold a local government employment, is not entitled under regulation D5, D6, D7 or D9 to retirement benefits which are payable immediately on his ceasing to hold that employment, has a statutory pension entitlement, then, subject to regulation D13, he becomes entitled in relation to that employment to a standard retirement pension and a standard retirement grant payable from the appropriate date; and in these regulations benefits to which a person becomes entitled under this paragraph and which have not yet become payable are called “preserved benefits”.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) “the appropriate date”, in relation to any person, is his 65th birthday or, if earlier, the earliest of the following—\n(a) his NRD;\n(b) any date on which he becomes permanently incapable, by reason of ill-health or infirmity of mind or body, of discharging efficiently the duties of the employment he has ceased to hold;\n(c) any date after he has attained the age of 50 years from which the the Committee, ... determines on compassionate grounds that the benefits are to become payable;\n(d) in the case of a person who has attained the age of 60 years and has completed 10 years' membership provided that he was a contributory employee before 1st April 1972, that birthday; and\n(e) in the case of a person who—\n(i) has ceased the employment under which the preserved benefits were accrued (but may be in local government employment unrelated to the preserved benefits); and\n(ii) has duly elected to receive payment from a date on or after the date upon which that person attains the age of 55, the date so elected.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/189), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. 2 (with savings and transitional provisions in reg. 3, Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. D11(2)(c) substituted (18.11.2019) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 41(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. D11(2)(c) omitted (18.11.2019) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 41(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. D11(2)(e) substituted (18.11.2019) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 41(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. D11(3) revoked (with effect from 1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/128), regs. 1(1)(2), 36(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. D11(4) omitted (18.11.2019) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 41(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. D11(1), (2)(a)-(d), (3)(4) in operation at 1.8.2000, see reg. A1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. D11(2)(e) in operation at 1.8.2000 with effect in accordance with reg. A1(9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/177/regulation/D11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:32.787353+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}