INCREASE OF MEMBERSHIP BY EMPLOYING AUTHORITY

52.-(1) An employing authority may resolve to increase the total membership of a member who leaves his employment on or after his 50th birthday an active member (SI2004/573).

(1A) Where a member leaves his employment by reason of redundancy, a resolution under paragraph (1) may be passed at any time in the period of six months beginning with the date on which the member leaves his employment, but shall be deemed to take effect on the final day of employment, and

“redundancy” includes leaving employment in the interests of efficiency, or because the member held a joint appointment which has been terminated because the other holder has left it. (SI2008/2425)

(2) The additional period of membership must not exceed-

(a) the member's total membership on the date he leaves his employment ("the relevant date");

(b) the period by which that period falls short of 40 years;

(c) the period by which that period would have been increased if he had continued as an active member until he was 65; or

(d) 6 243/365 years,

whichever is the shortest. (SI2004/573)

(2) A member's total additional membership (including additional membership in respect of different employments) must not exceed - 

(a) 6 243/365 years ten years (SI2007/1488); or (SI2006/966)

(b) the period by which the member's total membership falls short of 40 years; or (SI2006/966)

(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. (SI2004/573)

(3) A resolution under paragraph (1) may only be passed during the period-

(a) beginning one month before the relevant date, and

(b) ending 6 months after that date. (SI2004/573)

(4) If such a resolution is passed before the relevant date it is conditional on the satisfaction on that date of the conditions for its making. (SI2004/573)

(5) The death of the member after the relevant date does not affect his former employing authority's power under this regulation. (SI2004/573)

(6) The relevant additional period may only be counted as a period of membership if-

(a) the administering authority 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 make 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 the resolution was passed, or

(b) if by virtue of paragraph (4) the resolution was conditional, with the date on which the member leaves his employment. (SI2004/573)

(b) such longer period as the employing authority and the administering authority agree. (SI2004/573)

(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 8 or been paid compensation under regulation 32 (SI1999/1212) of the Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations 1996 or regulation 8 of the Local Government (Early Termination of Employment) (Discretionary Compensation) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (SI2000/1410) in respect of a cessation of employment, no resolution may be passed under this regulation by reason of that cessation. (SI2004/573)

(10) If a person becomes entitled on leaving an employment to an ill-health pension under regulation 27 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 on or after 1st October 2006 1st April 2008 (SI2006/2008) shall be treated as a period of membership after that date. (SI2006/966)

(11) An additional period arising from a resolution under this regulation on or after 1st April 2005 shall be treated as a period of membership after that date. (SI2004/3372) (SI2005/1903)

53.-(1) An employing authority may resolve to increase a member's total membership.

(2) Such a resolution may only be passed before the expiry of the period of six months beginning with the day on which he becomes a member.

(3) The member must be aged less than 59 when he becomes a member.

(4) The resolution must specify the additional period of membership.

(5) That period must not exceed the maximum addition under Schedule 4.

(6) Where the employing authority have passed a resolution under paragraph (1) the additional period may be counted as part of the member's total membership.

(7) But if when the member leaves his employment with the employing authority no person becomes immediately entitled to payment of (SI1998/1238) a pension in respect of his membership the additional period may not be so counted.

(8) But paragraph (7) shall not apply in the case of a member who leaves an employment with an admission body. (SI2001/1481) (SI2004/573)

54.-(1) This regulation applies where a member-

(a) is entitled under this Chapter to count an additional period as a period of membership, and

(b) was aged at least 45 on the first day of the earliest period of membership he is entitled to count.

(2) Where this regulation applies the retirement pension-

(a) to which the member would otherwise be entitled under regulation 25, or

(b) to which he would otherwise be entitled under regulation 31 (before applying any reduction under paragraph (4) of that regulation),

is increased by multiplying his final pay by the length in years of the additional period and dividing the resulting amount by 240.

(3) The additional period does not count in the calculation of the standard retirement grant. (SI2006/966)