RTMC Model Conditions of Contract - Highways Agency

Regional Technology Maintenance ContractConditions of ContractClause Z20Clause Z21Extension of the service periodZ20.1 The Employer may notify the Contractor that the service period is to beextended by the extension period or such lesser period as the Employermay specify.Z20.2 If the service period is extended by less than the extension period, theEmployer may further extend the service period so that the total periodof extension does not exceed the extension period.Z20.3 The Employer does not notify the Contractor of any extension or furtherextension to the service period later than 18 months before the expiry ofthe service period.PensionsZ21.1 The Contractor ensures that any Transferring Employees• who were originally employed by a public sector employer inproviding services similar to the service and were members of theOriginal Scheme,• whose employment transferred to a private sector employerpursuant to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection ofEmployment Regulations 1981 or TUPE and who have beencontinuously employed in providing services similar to the serviceup to the access date and• who immediately before the access date are members of theOutgoing Contractor’s Pension Schemeautomatically become members of the Contractor’s Pension Plan onand from the access date and (except in the case of any suchTransferring Employee who opts out of membership of theContractor’s Pension Plan in writing in a form approved by theEmployer) remain members of the Contractor’s Pension Planthroughout the period of their employment in connection withProviding the Service.Z21.2 The Contractor ensures that the Contractor’s Pension Plan• is a registered pension scheme for the purposes of the FinanceAct 2004,• is a scheme which (in the opinion of the Government Actuary’sDepartment acting in accordance with its Statement of Practice) isa broadly comparable scheme to the Original Scheme assessed atthe point the Transferring Employees left the Original Scheme, orRTMC CoC, Issue 1, Rev 0 July 2011