Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
CHAPTER I
pp. 147–148
THE CHANCELLOR AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY

In this section

SUPERANNUATION SCHEMES

GENERAL REGULATION

There shall be two Superannuation Schemes: the Universities Superannuation Scheme as provided in the special regulations for the Scheme and as detailed in the rules of the Scheme,6 and the Federated Superannuation System for Universities Superannuation Scheme as provided in the special regulations for the Scheme.7

SPECIAL REGULATIONS

Universities Superannuation Scheme

Who are eligible.

1. Subject to the provisions of Rule 5 of the Scheme, the following shall be eligible for membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS):

  1. (a)all University officers (other than the holders of particular offices exempt by Statute or officers or classes of officers specified in Regulation 2) who have been
  2. (i)elected or appointed to office on or after 1 April 1975, unless as members previously of the Staff of an Institution in the Federated Superannuation System for Universities they have not elected to transfer to the USS,
  3. (ii)elected or appointed to office before 1 April 1975 and have elected to transfer to the USS;
  4. (b)other persons or classes of persons taking part in University teaching, research, or administration who on or after 1 April 1975 have been approved for the purpose by the former Financial Board or by the Finance Committee of the Council, subject in the case of persons or classes of persons attached to an institution under the supervision of the General Board to a recommendation from that Board, or who having been so approved before 1 April 1975 have elected to transfer to the USS.

2. The following shall not normally be eligible for membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme:

  1. (a)the holder of any particular University office exempt by Statute;
  2. (b)any person engaged by the Press Syndicate in the service of the University Press;
  3. (c)any University officer who on appointment to his or her office is, and elects to remain, a member of the National Health Service Superannuation Scheme;
  4. (d)any person who on first appointment to a University office was aged 60 years or over;
  5. (e)the holder of any particular office the stipend of which, in view of the nature and extent of the duties and in view of the length of tenure of the office, has been determined by Ordinance or by Grace on the recommendation of the competent authority to be non-pensionable.

3. Contributions to be paid by members of the Scheme shall be deducted from their stipends.

Amendment of Scheme.

4. The Scheme may be so altered from time to time, without the authority of a Grace, as to keep it in harmony with the Scheme as amended from time to time by Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited.

Footnotes

  1. 6. The rules of USS were last published in Ordinances, 1985, p. 72. Up-to-date copies of the rules may be obtained from the Head of the Pensions Section or from the Pensions Webpage at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/pensions/.a
  2. 7. The regulations for FSSU were last published in Ordinances, 1979, p. 108. The scheme for supplementation of superannuation benefits under FSSU was last published in Ordinances, 1985, p. 124.a