Jersey R&O 170/2002

Public Employees (Retirement) (Jersey) Law 1967

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PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (CONTRIBUTORY RETIREMENT SCHEME) (FORMER HOSPITAL SCHEME) (AMENDMENT No. 4) (JERSEY) REGULATIONS 2002

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(Promulgated on the 11th day of December 2002)

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STATES OF JERSEY

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The 10th day of December 2002

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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.      After Regulation 4(2) of the Public Employees (Contributory Retirement Scheme) (Former Hospital Scheme) (Jersey) Regulations 1992,[3] as amended,[4] hereinafter referred to as the “principal Regulations”, there shall be inserted the following paragraphs -

          “(3)   With effect from 1st January 2003, the employer of each member who is employed as the Chief Ambulance Officer or an Assistant Chief Ambulance Officer in the States of Jersey Ambulance Service, and whose basic salary due under his contract of service has been reduced by 4%, 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 the modifications specified in Regulation 15C had not applied.

          (4)     The amount to be paid in any year under paragraph (3) shall be the amount specified in respect of that year by the Actuary in a certificate provided to the Committee.”.

                2.      After Regulation 15B of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following Regulation -

“Modification of scheme for the Chief and Assistant Chief Ambulance Officers

          15C.  In their application to a person employed as the Chief Ambulance Officer or an Assistant Chief Ambulance Officer in the States of Jersey Ambulance Service whose basic salary due under his contract of service has been reduced by 4%, these Regulations shall have effect subject to the following modifications -

          (a)     the normal retiring age shall be sixty years for such a person and the definition ‘normal retiring age’ in Regulation 1 shall be construed accordingly;

          (b)     every member who has attained normal retirement age and has retired at that age or later in accordance with Regulation 5(1) shall be entitled during his life to an annual pension under the scheme commencing as from the date of actual retirement, and Regulation 5(2) shall be amended accordingly;

          (c)     no lump sum shall be payable to a female member, and Regulation 5(2) and (3) shall be amended accordingly;

          (d)     the annual rate of retirement pension shall be calculated as 1/45th of the member’s average salary for each year of pensionable service, subject to a maximum of 35 years of pensionable service, and Regulation 5(3) shall be amended accordingly;

          (e)     for a person employed as the Chief Ambulance Officer or an Assistant Chief Ambulance Officer in the States of Jersey Ambulance Service whose basic salary due under his contract of service has been reduced by 4%, Regulation 8 shall be construed as if for the words ‘50 but under 60 years of age in the case of a male member or over 45 but under 55 years in the case of a female member’, there were substituted the words ‘45 but under 55 years of age’.

                2.      These Regulations may be cited as the Public Employees (Contributory Retirement Scheme) (Former Hospital Scheme) (Amendment No. 4) (Jersey) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st January 2003.

M.N. DE LA HAYE

Greffier of the States.