Regulation 4 Pensionable employees
Regulation B1 of the principal Regulations is amended—
in paragraph (1), by substituting for the words“paragraphs (16) and (17)”the words“paragraphs (15A) to (17)”;
in paragraph (3)(a), by deleting the words“whole-time”and by inserting after the words“that body”the words“in which the contractual hours were 15 or more”;
in paragraph (4), by inserting after the words“whole-time”, in both places in which they occur, the words“or part-time”;
by inserting after paragraph (13) the following:
“(13A)A justices' clerk (outside the inner London area) is a pensionable employee.
(13B)A registration officer is a pensionable employee.”;
by inserting after paragraph (15) the following:
“(15A)Part IV of Schedule 2 has effect for determining whether—
(a)in a part-time employment in which he is not already a pensionable employee by virtue of paragraphs (2) to (15), or
(b)in any whole-time employment in which the contractual weeks are fewer than 45,
an employee of a scheduled body is for the time being a pensionable employee.
(15B)A person who is in a part-time employment in which he is, by virtue of paragraphs (2) to (15), a pensionable employee may at any time, by notice in writing given to the employing authority, elect to cease to be a pensionable employee in that employment from the day after the date to which the next payment of wages or salary will be calculated.”;
in paragraph (16), by substituting for the words“paragraph (2), (3) or (4)”the words“paragraph (2), (3), (4) or (15A)(a)”;
in paragraph (17)—
by substituting for the words“paragraphs (2) to (15)”the words“paragraphs (2) to (15A)”, and
in sub-paragraph (b), by substituting for the words“a person”the words“subject to paragraph (18), a person”; and
by inserting after paragraph (17) the following:
“(18)A person—
(a)who falls within paragraph (17)(b), or
(b)who gave a notification under regulation G10(2) of the 1974 Regulations (certain transferred water employees electing not to be pensionable employees),
but who would otherwise be a pensionable employee by virtue of paragraph (3) may at any time, by notice in writing given to the body by whom he is employed, elect to become a pensionable employee from the day after the date to which the next payment of wages or salary will be calculated.”.