A LAW to amend further the Public Employees (Retirement) (Jersey) Law 1967.

THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –

“4      Power to extend application of scheme

(1)     The States may make Regulations empowering the Minister, on the application of an employer who satisfies the Minister that it is appropriate to do so, to admit –

(a)     the employer; and

(b)     persons in the employment of that employer,

to participate in the scheme.

(2)     The Regulations may –

(a)     specify terms and conditions on which the employer and the employees respectively may participate in the scheme, or specify any other manner in which such terms and conditions shall be determined; and

(b)     impose additional obligations on any person specified in paragraph (4), or specify any other manner in which such additional obligations shall be imposed on any such person.

(3)     In specifying a manner in which terms and conditions shall be determined or additional obligations shall be imposed, the Regulations may refer to and adopt terms that are set out in a document other than the Regulations.

(4)     The persons to whom paragraph (2)(b) refers are the Minister, the employer, the Committee of Management, the actuary appointed under Article 3(2) and the States Employment Board.

(5)     For the purposes of this Article, it is immaterial whether at the time when the Regulations are made an additional obligation to which this Article refers already exists otherwise than under or by virtue of this Law.”.