The Superannuation (Specification of Employments and Offices) Regulations 2013

• Citation: S.I. 2013/1564
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Superannuation (Specification of Employments and Offices) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 18th July 2013.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations “ the Act ” means the Superannuation Act 1972.

Section 3 Description of employments and offices

(1) An employment or office is prescribed for the purposes of section 1A(4)(a) of the Act if—

(a) the employment or office is not of a kind mentioned in section 1(4) of the Act; and

(b) the individual appointed to that employment or office was, immediately before the appointment, a member or eligible to be a member of a scheme under section 1 of the Act by virtue of section 1(4).

(2) An employment or office is prescribed for the purposes of section 1A(4)(a) of the Act if—

(a) at any time before 21st June 2006 the employment or office ceased to be of a kind mentioned in section 1(4) of the Act;

(b) at the time that the employment or office ceased to be of a kind mentioned in section 1(4), persons serving in that employment or office ceased to be members or to be eligible to be members of a scheme under section 1 of the Act; and

(c) persons in that employment or office continued for any period after the time that it ceased to be of a kind mentioned in section 1(4) to be treated by the Minister for the Civil Service as if they were members of a scheme under section 1 of the Act for the purposes of functions exercisable by him under that section.

Section 4 Information to be included in the list

(1) The list produced for the purposes of section 1(4A) of the Act must contain the following—

(a) a description of the employment or office by reference to—

(i) the job title of, or nature of the service carried out in, that employment or office; and

(ii) the date on which persons must be in service in that employment or office;

(b) the date from which the employment or office is specified for the purposes of section 1(4A) of the Act; and

(c) the name of the body with which persons in that employment or office are contracted or to be contracted to provide those services after the date referred to in sub-paragraph (b).

(2) In paragraph (1)(c), “body” includes any firm, organisation or body of persons corporate or unincorporate.