Public Employees (Retirement) (Jersey) Law 1967
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PUBLIC
EMPLOYEES (CONTRIBUTORY RETIREMENT SCHEME) (NEW MEMBERS) (AMENDMENT No. 7)
(JERSEY) REGULATIONS 2000
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(Promulgated on the 12th day of July 2000)
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STATES OF JERSEY
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The
11th day of July 2000
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THE
STATES, in pursuance of Article 2 of the Public Employees (Retirement)
(Jersey) Law 1967, as amended, have made the
following Regulations -
1. In Regulation 1(1) of
the Public Employees (Contributory Retirement Scheme) (New Members) (Jersey)
Regulations 1989,
as amended
(hereinafter referred to as the “principal Regulations”), for the definition of
“category A member” there shall be substituted the following definition -
“category A member” means -
(a) a member
employed in the States of Jersey Police Force, the States of Jersey Fire
Service, the States of Jersey Prison Service, the States of Jersey Port Control
Unit or the States of Jersey Airport Fire Service; or
(b) a member
employed as an Emergency Ambulance Officer in the States of Jersey Ambulance
Service, other than a person who ceased to be a member before 1st January 1999,
not being a category B member;”.
2. In Regulation 2 of the
principal Regulations -
(a) in paragraph
(8)(b) and (e) after the words “low-hours employee”, wherever occurring, there
shall be inserted the words “who entered service before 1st August 2000”;
(b) in
paragraph (8)(e) after the expression “1st July 1998”, there shall be inserted
the words “or the date on which he entered service (whichever date is the
later)”;
(c) in
paragraph (11)(b) after the words “low-hours employee” there shall be inserted
the words “who has been a low-hours employee continuously since a date before
1st August 2000”;
(d) in
paragraph (11)(b) after the expression “1st July 1998”, there shall be inserted
the words “or the date on which he entered service (whichever date is the
later)”.
3. In Regulation 4 of the principal
Regulations -
(a) after
paragraph (1A) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs -
“(1B) With effect from 1st January 1999, the employer of each member who
is employed as an Emergency Ambulance Officer in the States of Jersey Ambulance
Service shall pay additional contributions to the scheme that represent the
total difference in cost between providing all such members’ benefits and the
cost that would have been incurred to the scheme if those members had not been
category A members.
(1C) The amount to be paid in any year under paragraph (1B) shall be the
amount specified in respect of that year by the Actuary in a certificate
provided to the Committee.”;
(b) in
paragraph (4), for the expression “Paragraphs (1), (1A) and (2)” there shall be
substituted the expression “Paragraphs (1) - (2)”.
4. In Regulation 8 of the principal
Regulations -
(a) in
paragraph (1)(b) before the words “to a refund” there shall be inserted the
words “in the case of a person who ceases to be an employee on or after 1st
August 2000 but who was, under these Regulations, most recently admitted or
re-admitted to the scheme before that date - ”;
(b) for
paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraph -
“(4) Unless a member to whom paragraph (1)(b) applies informs the
Treasurer in writing within three months of his ceasing to be an employee that
he wishes to receive a refund of his own contributions to the scheme, he shall
be entitled under paragraph (1) only to a deferred pension or a transfer
value.”.
5. In Regulations 9(7),
9(8), 10(2) and 11(2)(b) of the principal Regulations for the words “subject to
proviso (ii)” there shall be substituted the words “subject to proviso (b)”.
6. In Regulation 10(5) of
the principal Regulations for the words “subject to proviso (ii) to the definition
of ‘average salary’” there shall be substituted the words “subject to proviso
(b) to the definition of ‘final pensionable salary’”.
7. These Regulations may
be cited as the Public Employees (Contributory Retirement Scheme) (New Members)
(Amendment No. 7) (Jersey) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on the
first day of August 2000.
G.H.C.
COPPOCK
Greffier of the States.