55A.2  Pensions for New Employees

The Service Provider shall procure that any New Employee shall be provided with membership of or participation in one of the schemes or arrangements set out below:

(a)  membership of the LGPS where the employer has admission body status within the scheme and makes the requisite contribution; or

(b)  membership of a good quality employer pension scheme, being either:

(i)  a contracted-out final salary based defined benefit scheme; or

(ii)  a defined contribution scheme under which the employer must match employee contributions up to six per cent (6%); or

(c)  a stakeholder pension scheme, under which the employer matches employee contributions up to at least six per cent (6%).