# Local Government (Severance Payments to Councillors) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make provision for the payment of severance payments to councillors under the enabling power in section 19 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010. This is the first use of this enabling power by the Department.
Regulation 1 deals with the citation and commencement of these Regulations.
Regulation 2 explains how certain terms in these Regulations are interpreted.
Regulation 3 sets out the prescribed period and prescribed conditions which a councillor must meet in order to be eligible for severance payment. It specifies that councillors must have accrued a minimum of 12 years reckonable service by the date of the councillor’s application to be eligible for a severance payment and that the application must be made in accordance with regulation 4.
Regulation 4 provides for applications for a severance payment. It specifies how and when such applications are to be made and sets out the administrative requirements for each application.
Regulation 5 provides for the calculation of the amount of a severance payment by the existing council.
Regulation 6 provides for the calculation of total reckonable service.
Regulation 7 makes it clear that the existing council must not pay a severance payment to a councillor before the date of his or her resignation and that only one severance payment shall be paid each eligible councillor. It also places a duty on the existing council to pay the severance payment to the councillor’s beneficiaries named by the councillor on his or her nomination form, in the event that the councillor dies between becoming eligible for a severance payment and receiving payment of it.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/183/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-severance-payments-to-councillors-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/note
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