The Local Government (Executive Councils) (Compensation) Amendment Regulations 1966
These regulations amend the Local Government (Executive Councils) (Compensation) Regulations 1964. The amendments are:—The compensation payable to any person is to be reduced by the amount of any redundancy payment which has been or is to be made to him under his contract of service. (Regulation 3).Under the Regulations of 1964 long-term and retirement compensation are reduced by the amount of any superannuation benefits payable immediately to an officer in respect of his lost employment. A similar reduction is now to be made as and when benefits become payable in respect of a lost employment at a future date. (Regulation 4).A person who continues in or enters further pensionable employment is not to be entitled to retirement compensation if he elects to continue paying superannuation contributions as if his emoluments had not been diminished. (Regulation 5).In determining whether, and if so the extent to which, compensation may be reduced while a claimant holds other employment remunerated from public funds, account is to be taken of any pension he is receiving in respect of the employment which he has lost or in which his emoluments were diminished. (Regulation 6).Minor and miscellaneous amendments are made to the Regulations of 1964, mainly to bring them in line with the Local Government (Compensation) Regulations 1963 and 1965 (S.I.1963/999 and S.I.1965/571), and as a consequence of the provisions of section 44 of the Redundancy Payment Act 1965(c.62)which provided that appeals under the Regulations should go to a tribunal established under section 12 of the Industrial Training Act 1964. (Regulations 7 and 8).