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Adjustments to compensation: other receipts

Limit on annual compensation where entitlement to occupational pension
11.  - (1) Where-

(a) immediately before the material date a person is entitled to an occupational pension in respect of any period (whether or not it is in payment);

(b) the aggregate of that period, his effective service and any credited period exceeds 40 years; and

(c) at any time when the occupational pension is in payment, the aggregate of the annual rate for the time being-


(i) of that pension;

(ii) of his retirement pension under regulation E2(1)(b)(iii) of the Superannuation Regulations regulation 25 of the LGPS Regulations (SI1998/364) or regulation 19 of the Benefits Regulations (early leavers: business efficiency and redundancy) (SSI 2009/187); and

(iii) of the annual compensation payable under regulation 9, would (apart from this paragraph) exceed the relevant amount specified in paragraph (2),



the basic rate of the annual compensation shall be reduced so that that aggregate does not exceed the relevant amount.

(2) The relevant amount mentioned in paragraph (1) is-

(a) if a retiring allowance under Part E of the Superannuation Regulations Part II of the LGPS Regulations (SI1998/364) or regulation 6 of the Benefits Regulations (benefits) (SSI 2009/187) is payable, 50 per cent of the sum of-


(i) the amount of the eligible person's pensionable remuneration; and

(ii) the amount of the official increases by which an official pension at the annual rate of that pensionable remuneration would have been increased, if it had begun and first qualified for such increases on the day after the material date; and



(b) if no such retiring allowance is payable, 66 66 2/3 (SI2000/77) per cent of the sum of those amounts.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)-

(a) the annual rates at any time of the annual compensation and of any other official pension are their annual rates with official increases;

(b) the annual rate at any time of an occupational pension which is not such an official pension is its annual rate as increased under any enactment, contract, scheme or other arrangement.

(4) As respects an occupational pension which is-

(a) a pension under a personal pension scheme in relation to which the Secretary of State paid contributions under section 1 of the Social Security Act 1986 or section 43 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993; or

(b) a pension derived from the payment of a transfer value calculated by reference to rights arising with respect to such a pension as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (a),

any reference in paragraph (1) to the period in respect of which a person is entitled to the occupational pension shall be construed as a reference-

(i) to the period of employment by reference to which the Secretary of State has paid the contributions; and

(ii) without prejudice to the generality of that expression in other cases, to any period of employment in relation to which a transfer value has been paid into the personal pension scheme.

(5) In this regulation-

"the basic rate", in relation to annual compensation, means its basic rate for the purposes of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971;

"official increases" means any increases under that Act.

Redundancy payments
12.  - (1) Where-

(a) the period with which an eligible person is credited under regulation 8 exceeds 6 2/3 years; and

(b) he has received, or is entitled to receive, in respect of the cessation of his former employment-


(i) a redundancy payment to which he is entitled under Part XI of the 1996 Act (redundancy payments); or

(ii) compensation paid to him under Part II of these Regulations,



his compensation under this Part shall be abated in accordance with the following provisions.

(2) In the case of lump sum compensation-

(a) if it exceeds the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (3), it shall be reduced by that amount; and

(b) if the amount so calculated equals or exceeds it, it shall not be payable (and any such excess ("the outstanding balance") shall be deducted from the annual compensation as mentioned in paragraph (4)).

(3) The amount to be calculated in accordance with this paragraph is an amount equal to 30 per cent of the aggregate amount of the redundancy payments referred to in paragraph (1)(b)(i) and (ii), multiplied by the excess mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) (expressed in years and fractions of a year) less the aggregate amount of any reductions made in those payments in accordance with the 1965 Regulations. (SI2006/609)

(4) Annual compensation payable under regulation 10 shall be reduced by the appropriate percentage-

(a) if paragraph (2)(b) applies, of the outstanding balance; or

(b) if, apart from the provisions of paragraph (2), the person is not entitled to receive lump sum compensation, of the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (3);

and in this paragraph "the appropriate percentage" means the percentage specified in the Table in Schedule 1 in relation to a person of the eligible person's age and sex.

Other termination payments
13.  - (1) Where an eligible person who has been granted a credited period under regulation 8 receives a termination payment to which this regulation applies-

(a) his lump sum compensation is only payable if, and to the extent that, after abatement under regulation 12, it exceeds the amount of the termination payment;

(b) if the termination payment exceeds his lump sum compensation after any such abatement, his annual compensation (after any necessary adjustments under regulations 12, 15, 16, 18 and 19) shall be reduced by the amount of the excess;

(c) if (apart from paragraph (a)) he is not entitled to receive lump sum compensation, his annual compensation (after any such necessary adjustments) shall be reduced by the amount of the termination payment.

(2) Where-

(a) the whole or part of the termination payment is received by a person after a period is credited to him under regulation 8; and

(b) his compensation has not been abated on account of that payment in accordance with paragraph (1),

his annual compensation (after any necessary adjustments under regulations 12, 15, 16, 18 and 19) shall be reduced by the amount received in respect of the termination payment.

(3) Where a person's annual compensation falls to be reduced by an amount under paragraph (1)(b) or (c) or (2), no instalment of annual compensation becomes payable to him until the aggregate of reductions equals that amount.

(4) In this regulation "termination payment" means the aggregate amount of any lump sum payments made to the eligible person by his employing authority in consequence of or as compensation for the loss of his former employment (other than lump sum compensation or any payment which is an excepted payment in relation to that employment), being payments made under an enactment or a contract or arrangement with that authority.

Periodic payments
14.  - (1) Where periodic payments are received by a person in respect of any period, annual compensation is only payable to him in respect of that period if, and to the extent that, after any adjustments necessary under regulations 12, 13, 15, 16, 18 and 19 have been made, it exceeds the amount of the aggregate of those periodic payments.

 (2) In this regulation, "periodic payment", in relation to a person, means an instalment of an allowance for life or other period (other than annual compensation under this Part or a payment which is an excepted payment in relation to that employment) granted to him by his employing authority in consequence of or as compensation for the loss of former employment, being an allowance under an enactment or a contract or arrangement with that authority.

(a) apart from this regulation and regulation 16, annual compensation is payable to a person; and

(b) he enters a new employment,

the annual compensation shall be reduced in accordance with regulation 16 for so long as he holds that or any other new employment.

(2) Where two or more awards of annual compensation in respect of an eligible person fall to be reduced in accordance with this regulation, each such award shall be reduced in proportion to its amount.

(3) In this regulation and regulation 16, "annual compensation", in relation to a person, means the annual compensation which would, apart from this regulation and regulation 16 be payable to him under this Part.

(4) In this Part "new employment", in relation to a person, means employment with a LGSS employer LGPS employer (SI1998/364) or a relevant English or Welsh employer which he enters after the material date.

(5) If-

(a) the person's contractual hours in a new employment are altered; or

(b) he is transferred to another post under the same employing authority at an altered remuneration,

this regulation applies as if he had again entered a new employment.

Reduction of annual compensation during new employment
16.  - (1) If during any period during which a person holds a new employment the aggregate annual rate of-

(a) annual compensation payable to him;

(b) remuneration of his new employment; and

(c) retirement pension payable to him in relation to his former employment,

exceeds the annual rate of remuneration of his former employment, then, subject to paragraph (2), the rate of annual compensation payable to him in respect of that period shall be reduced by the amount of the excess.

(2) If concurrently with his former employment and during the period of 12 months ending with the material date a person who is entitled to annual compensation held any other employment with a LGSS employer LGPS employer (SI1998/364) or a relevant English or Welsh employer ("concurrent employment"), then, if-

(a) he ceased to hold the concurrent employment before the material date without having become entitled to receive a retirement pension in relation to it and enters new employment within 12 months after ceasing to hold the concurrent employment; or

(b) he ceases to hold the concurrent employment on or after the material date without having become so entitled and has later entered new employment,

his annual compensation shall only be reduced in relation to his new employment-

(i) if he spends in the new employment a time materially greater than the time which during the 12 months ending with the day on which he ceased to hold the concurrent employment he spent in that employment; and

(ii) if, and to the extent that, the aggregate annual rate mentioned in paragraph (1) exceeds the aggregate of-


(I) the annual rate of remuneration of his former employment; and

(II) the annual rate of remuneration of the concurrent employment during that year.

(3) In this regulation "retirement pension" means-

(a) a pension under regulation E2 of the Superannuation Regulations (including an annual pension within the meaning of regulation E15(14) of those Regulations); (SI1998/364)

(a) a pension under regulation 24, 25, 26 or 30 of the LGPS Regulations (including a single pension under regulation 28 of those Regulations); (SI1998/364) or

(b) an occupational pension.

(4) In this regulation "annual compensation", in relation to a person, means-

(a) in paragraph (1)(a), the annual compensation payable to him under regulation 10; and

(b) elsewhere, the annual compensation which would, apart from regulation 15 and this regulation, be payable to him under these Regulations.

(5) For the purposes of this regulation, references to the "annual rate" of retirement pension or of the remuneration of a former employment or concurrent employment are references to the annual rate of such a pension or remuneration with official increases.

(6) In paragraph (5) "official increases", in relation to a pension or remuneration, means the increases (if any) by which an annual pension of an amount equal to the annual rate of that pension or remuneration would have been increased under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 during the period ending with the day immediately preceding the day on which the person in question entered the new employment, on the assumption-

(a) that that pension was specified in Part II of Schedule 2 to that Act and began for the purposes of that Act on the day the pension actually began or, as the case may be, the next day after that on which he ceased to hold the employment; and

(b) that he had on that day attained the age of 55.

(7) In calculating the annual rate of remuneration of a former, concurrent or new employment, paragraphs (6) to (9) of regulation E15 of the Superannuation Regulations (re-employed pensioners) shall apply on the relevant assumptions no regard shall be had to regulation 110 (abatement) of the LGPS Regulations) (SI1998/364) or regulation 65 of the Administration Regulations (application of abatement policy to individual cases) (SSI 2009/187)

(a) as if a former or concurrent employment were a former employment, and a new employment, within the meaning of that paragraph; and (SI1998/364)
(b) with respect to regulation E15(6), as if the source of entitlement were the Superannuation Regulations; (SI1998/364)
but, in relation to a period of special service, regulation E15(7) of the Superannuation Regulations shall have effect as if the words "either" and "or he made contributions or payments under section 6(5) of the Act of 1937 or regulation C3 or C4" were omitted. (SI1998/364)

Cessation of new employment
17.  - (1) Where-

(a) a person who has been granted a credited period under regulation 8 has ceased to hold a new employment in which he was a pensionable employee LGPS member (SI1998/364) or an assumed pensionable employee assumed member (SI1998/364); and

(b) the aggregate of-


(i) his effective service (to be taken into account under the Superannuation Regulations the LGPS Regulations (SI1998/364) in the calculation of his retirement pension on cessation of his new employment, on the relevant assumptions) but ignoring any such effective service falling on or after age 65 (SSI 2011/349); and

(ii) the period of residual entitlement which he has to his credit,



exceeds his effective service which would have been so taken into account if he had held his former employment until his 65th birthday and including the day before his 65th birthday (SSI 2011/349),

his annual compensation shall be abated in accordance with regulation 18.

(2) Where a period of pre-material date extra service has been granted to a person, paragraph (1)(b) has effect with the substitution for the reference to former employment-

(a) if it has been granted in respect of one cessation of employment which occurred before the material date, of a reference to that employment; and

(b) if it has been granted to him in respect of more than one such cessation, of a reference to the first such employment to cease.

(3) The abatement under paragraph (1) shall have effect from the day the person in question becomes entitled to receive benefits under Part E of the Superannuation Regulations Part II of the LGPS Regulations (SI1998/364) or regulation 6 of the Benefits Regulations (benefits) (SSI 2009/187) in relation to his new employment (or but for a relevant disqualification and on the relevant assumptions would become so entitled).

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the effective service of a person includes reckonable service which, but for this paragraph, would be excluded by virtue of regulation D3(6) of the Superannuation Regulations regulation 8(4) of the LGPS Regulations (SI1998/364) (exclusion of periods in respect of which transfer values paid). (SSI 2009/187)

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the effective service of a person includes–

(a) reckonable service within the meaning of the LGPS Regulations which, but for this paragraph, would be excluded by virtue of regulation 8(4) of the LGPS Regulations (exclusion of periods in respect of which transfer values paid); and

(b) total membership within the meaning of the Benefits Regulations which, but for this paragraph, would be excluded by virtue of regulation 12(2) of the Administration Regulations (periods of membership).
(SSI 2009/187)

(5) In this regulation "annual compensation", in relation to a person, means the compensation payable to him under regulation 10-

(a) after any necessary adjustments under regulations 12 and 19; and

(b) in a case where he has held a previous new employment (that is to say, a new employment which ceased before cessation of the new employment referred to in paragraph (1)), after any necessary adjustments under this regulation made as respects that previous new employment, but disregarding any reduction under regulation 19(3).

(6) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person has to his credit a period of residual entitlement equal to the aggregate of-

(a) any period of pre-material date extra service granted to him, reduced as may be necessary in accordance with paragraph (7); and

(b) his credited period, reduced as may be necessary in accordance with paragraph (8).

(7) Where-

(a) after the first cessation of employment in respect of which a period of pre-material date extra service was granted to him a person has ceased to hold another employment; and

(b) his pre-material date extra service has been reduced by, or his compensation or benefit attributable to such a period has been reduced on account of, the period of that other employment or a part of it ("the reduction period"),

his pre-material date extra service shall, for the purposes of paragraph (6)(a), be reduced by the reduction period.

(8) Where there has been an abatement of a person's annual compensation in accordance with this regulation on account of a period of previous new employment or a part of such a period ("the abatement period"), then for the purposes of paragraph (6)(b) the length of his credited period shall be reduced by the abatement period.

(9) In this regulation "pre-material date extra service" has the meaning given in regulation 8(3)(b).

Reduction of annual compensation on cessation of new employment
18.  - (1) The abatement in a person's annual compensation referred to in regulation 17(1) is its reduction by an annual sum equal to the relevant fraction of the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (5); and the amount of the annual compensation as so reduced is in this regulation referred to as "reduced annual compensation".

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (5), the reduced annual compensation is payable to the person in question in lieu of his annual compensation (as defined in regulation 17(5)).

(3) Where on cessation of his former employment a person became entitled to lump sum compensation, his reduced annual compensation shall be further reduced by an amount ("the abatement amount") equal to the relevant fraction of the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (5), so that no instalment of reduced annual compensation becomes payable to him until the aggregate of reductions equals the abatement amount.

(4) In this regulation "the relevant fraction" means the fraction, ascertained in accordance with regulation E3(1) to (3) of the Superannuation Regulations regulations 19 and 53 of the LGPS Regulations (SI1998/364) regulation 19 of the LGPS Regulations or regulation 8(5) of the Benefit Benefits (SSI 2011/349) Regulations (SSI 2009/187), which was the fraction used-

(a) in the case of paragraph (1), in determining the increase in pension mentioned in regulation 10(2) for the purpose of determining the rate of the annual compensation; or

(b) in the case of paragraph (3), in determining the increase in grant mentioned in regulation 9(2) for the purpose of determining the lump sum compensation.

(5) The amount to be calculated in accordance with this paragraph is an amount equal to the product of-

(a) the smaller of-


(i) the pensionable remuneration of the person's former employment; and

(ii) the pensionable remuneration of his new employment (after deducting the notional indexed increase); and



(b) the shortest of-



(i) his credited period;

(ii) his effective service to be taken into account in relation to his new employment (as described in regulation 17(1)(b)(i)); and

(iii) the period of excess referred to in regulation 17(1)(b);



and for the purposes of paragraph (b) periods shall be expressed in years and fractions of a year.

(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5), the notional indexed increase, in relation to the pensionable remuneration of a person's new employment, is such proportion of it as the aggregate of any increases which would have been awarded in respect of the relevant period under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 on an official pension of �100 a year which commenced from the first day of the relevant period bears to the amount of an official pension of �100 as so increased.

(7) In paragraph (6) "the relevant period" means the period beginning with the day following cessation of the former employment and ending with the day the person becomes entitled (or but for a relevant disqualification and on the relevant assumptions would become entitled) to a retirement pension in respect of the new employment (notwithstanding that the right to the payment of such pension may be deferred).