# Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002, Regulation 54: Power of employing authority to increase total membership ...

Extent: N.I.

(1) An employing authority may resolve to increase the total membership of an active member.
(2) A member’s total additional membership (including additional membership in respect of different employments) must not exceed –
(a) 10 years; or
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c) the period by which the member’s total membership falls short of the total membership the member will have if he continues as an active member until he is 65,
whichever is the shortest.
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(6) The relevant additional period may only be counted as a period of membership if –
(a) the Committee and the employing authority agree before the expiry of the relevant period that the employing authority will pay increased contributions under regulation 79 to meet the cost of the increase in membership; or
(b) the employing authority makes the payment required by regulation 80(1) by reason of the resolution within that period.
(7) The relevant period is the period of one month beginning –
(a) with the date on which the resolution was passed; or
(b) such longer period as the employing authority and the Committee agree.
(8) If neither paragraph (6)(a) nor (6)(b) applies, the resolution shall cease to have effect.
(9) If a person has been credited with a period of service under regulation 7, or has been paid compensation under regulation 31 of the Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 or regulation 7 of the Local Government (Early Termination of Employment) (Discretionary Compensation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 in respect of a cessation of employment, no resolution may be passed under this regulation by reason of that cessation.
(10) If a person becomes entitled on leaving an employment to an ill-health pension under regulation 29 calculated by reference to an enhanced membership period, no resolution may be passed under this regulation by reason of his leaving that employment.
(11) An additional period arising from a resolution under this regulation after 31 March 2008 shall be treated as a period of membership after that date.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/352/regulation/54 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-54
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