# Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002, Regulation 12: Meaning of “pay”

Extent: N.I.

(1) An employee’s pay is the total of –
(a) all the salary, wages, fees and other payments paid to him for his own use in respect of his employment; and
(b) any other payment or benefit specified in his contract of employment as being a pensionable emolument.
(2) But an employee’s pay does not include –
(a) payments for non-contractual overtime;
(b) any travelling, subsistence or other allowance paid in respect of expenses incurred in relation to the employment;
(c) any payment in consideration of loss of holidays;
(d) any payment in lieu of notice to terminate his contract of employment;
(e) any payment as an inducement not to terminate his employment;
(f) any amount treated as the money value to the employee of the provision of a motor vehicle or any amount paid in lieu of such provision.
(3) For regulation 11, the pay of a part-time employee for any period is the pay he would have received if during that period he had worked the contractual hours.
(4) But paragraph (3) does not apply to periods during which the employee was away from work by reason of illness or injury with reduced or no pay.
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(8) No sum may be taken into account in calculating pay unless income tax liability has been determined on it.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/352/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-12
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