Public Employees (Contributory Retirement Scheme) (Existing Members) (Amendment No. 5) (Jersey) Regulations 2000

Public Employees (Retirement) (Jersey) Law 1967

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PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (CONTRIBUTORY RETIREMENT SCHEME) (EXISTING MEMBERS) (AMENDMENT No. 5) (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,[1] as amended,[2] have made the following Regulations -

 

                1.      In Regulation 1(1) of the Public Employees (Contributory Retirement Scheme) (Existing Members) (Jersey) Regulations 1989,[3] as amended[4] (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 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)”.

 

                3.      For Regulation 8(4) of the principal Regulations 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.”.

 

                4.      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)”.

 

                5.      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’”.

 

                6.      These Regulations may be cited as the Public Employees (Contributory Retirement Scheme) (Existing Members) (Amendment No. 5) (Jersey) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on the first day of August 2000.

 

                                                                                             G.H.C. COPPOCK

 

Greffier of the States.

 

 



[1] Recueil des Lois, Volume 1966-1967, page 528.

[2] Recueil des Lois, Volume 1988-1989, page 25 and Volume 1994-1995, pages 121 and 427.

[3] No. 7954.

[4] Nos. 8444, 8806, 8884 and 9249.


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