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Scottish Office Pensions Agency: Annual Report and Accounts

 

Annex D

 

NEW STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1. Made in 1998-1999

1.1 Regulations prescribing the money-purchase additional voluntary contribution arrangements for members of the NHS pension scheme in Scotland. (Statutory Instrument 1998 No 1451)

1.2 Amendments to the Scottish NHS pension scheme to extend cover to participants in personal medical services pilot projects, to revise terms for commutation on grounds of terminal ill-health, to improve basis for purchase of additional service, and to make other minor and technical amendments. (Statutory Instrument 1998 No 1593)

1.3 Consolidation, with minor amendments, of previous regulations governing injury benefit provisions for NHS employees in Scotland. (Statutory Instrument 1998 No 1594)

1.4 Regulations prescribing fund management and investment provisions for the Scottish local government pension scheme. (Statutory Instrument 1998 No 2888)

1.5 Amendments to the NHS pension scheme in Scotland to extend cover to participants in personal dental services pilot schemes, and to make other minor changes. (Statutory Instrument 1999 No 443)

1.6 Amendments to the Scottish NHS injury benefit regulations to cover the position of personal dental services pilot scheme participants. (Statutory Instrument 1999 No 444)

1.7 Amendments to the Scottish teachers' pension scheme

to introduce automatic membership for part-time teachers, and to make other miscellaneous changes. (Statutory Instrument 1999 No 446)

1.8 Regulations to provide for the payment of resettlement, ill-health retirement and severance grants to Members and certain officeholders of the Scottish Parliament. (Statutory Instrument 1999 No 1081)

1.9 Regulations prescribing the pension arrangements for Members of the Scottish Parliament. (Statutory Instrument 1999 No 1082)

 

2. Progressed in 1998-1999

2.1 Teachers

i. Regulations to improve terms of additional voluntary contribution options.

ii. Regulations to consolidate the Scottish teachers' pension scheme.

2.2 Local Government

i. Regulations to amend the principal and transitional regulations, to maintain consistency with England and Wales.

ii. Regulations to amend provisions relating to discretionary payments.

2.3 Legal Aid

i. Rules to effect miscellaneous changes and improvements to the pension scheme.

ii. Rules to formalise the money-purchase additional voluntary contribution facility.

iii. Rules to amend the injury benefits scheme provisions.

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