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,
as amended,
have made the following Regulations -
1. In Regulation 1(1) of
the Public Employees (Contributory Retirement Scheme) (Existing 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 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.