# Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002, Regulation 4: Employees of non-Scheme employers: community admission bodies

Extent: N.I.

(1) Subject to the requirements of this regulation and regulation 4B, the Committee may make an admission agreement with any community admission body.
(2) The following are community admission bodies –
(a) a body which provides a public service in the United Kingdom otherwise than for the purposes of gain and which either –
(i) has sufficient links with a Scheme employer for the body and the Scheme employer to be regarded as having a community of interest, whether because the operations of the body are dependent on the operations of the Scheme employer or otherwise, or
(ii) is approved by the Department for the purpose of admission to the Scheme;
(b) a body to the funds of which any Scheme employer contributes;
(c) a body representative –
(i) of local authorities,
(ii) of local authorities and officers of local authorities,
(iii) of officers of local authorities which is formed for the purpose of consultation as to the common interests of local authorities, and the discussion of matters relating to local government, or
(iv) of Scheme employers;
(d) a statutory undertaker;
(e) a non-statutory undertaker;
(f) the managers of a voluntary school or grant maintained integrated school within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;
(g) the governing body of an institution of further education within the meaning of the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.
(3) Approval under paragraph (2)(a)(ii) may be subject to such conditions as the Department thinks fit and it may withdraw approval at any time if such conditions are not met.
(4) Where, at the date the admission agreement is made with a body referred to in paragraph (2)(b), the contributions paid to the body by any one or more Scheme employers equal in total 50% or less of the total amount it receives from all sources, it must be a term of the admission agreement that the Scheme employer who provides funding (and, if more than one, all of them) guarantees the liability of the body to pay all amounts due from it under the Regulations.
(5) In this regulation –
(a) “a non-statutory undertaker” means a body who, though not authorised by any statutory provision to do so, is primarily engaged in carrying on –
(i) any railway, light railway, road transport, water transport, canal, inland navigation, dock, harbour or pier; or
(ii) any undertaking for the promotion of industrial development or the promotion of the development of tourist traffic;
(b) “a statutory undertaker” means a body authorised by any statutory provision to carry on –
(i) any railway, light railway, road transport, water transport, canal, inland navigation, dock, harbour, or pier; or
(ii) any undertaking for the promotion of industrial development or the promotion of the development of tourist traffic.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/352/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-4
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