# Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002, Regulation 4B: Requirements for admission agreements


(1) In regulations 4 and 4A an admission agreement is an agreement that all or any specified class of the admission body’s employees may be members.
(2) An admission agreement must terminate if the admission body ceases to be such a body and may make such other provision about its termination as the parties consider appropriate.
(3) When the Committee makes an admission agreement, it must promptly inform the Department of the date the agreement takes effect, the admission body’s name and, in the case of an admission agreement with a transferee admission body under regulation 4A (2)(a), the name of the relevant Scheme employer.
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(5) The Committee and an admission body may make an admission agreement despite the fact that they do not exercise their functions or provide services or assets in areas that overlap or adjoin each other.
(6) Any question which may arise between the parties to an admission agreement relating to the construction of the agreement or the rights and obligations under that agreement shall be referred in writing for determination to the Department.
(7) An employee of an admission body may not be a member if he is a member of another occupational pension scheme (within the meaning of section 1 of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 other than where the accrual of benefits under the occupational pension scheme would not affect approval of the Scheme as an approved scheme.
(8) These Regulations apply to employment with an admission body in which the employee is an active member in the same way as if the admission body were a Scheme employer.
(9) A body designated under the provisions of the Local Government (Superannuation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 shall be deemed to have an admission agreement under regulation 4 (employees of community admission bodies) for as long as that body continues to employ active members of the Scheme.

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