The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

Fair Deal eligible persons N.I.

16.—(1) In these Regulations, “Fair Deal eligible person” means—

(a) a person mentioned in regulation 3(2)(g)—

(i) in respect of whom the Department has made a further determination under section 25(5) of the Act in accordance with regulation 3(1)(b); and

(ii) who meets the conditions of eligibility set out in paragraph (2) (“the conditions of eligibility”); or

(b) a person mentioned in regulation 3(2)(f) or (h)—

(i) in respect of whom the Department has made a determination under section 25(5) of the Act in accordance with regulation 3(1)(b); and

(ii) who meets the conditions of eligibility.

(2) A person (P) meets the conditions of eligibility if—

(a) P’s employer is a party to an Admission Agreement in respect of the transferred services and the Admission Agreement has not terminated;

(b) on the Fair Deal transfer date, P is employed to carry out the transferred services;

(c) since the Fair Deal transfer date, P has been continuously employed to carry out the transferred services;

(d) P is employed to carry out the transferred services for more than 50% of P’s time working under P’s contract to carry out the transferred services;

(e) P is not, in respect of the transferred services, an active member of an occupational pension scheme or a personal pension scheme provided by P’s employer; and

(f) P has not signed an agreement with P’s employer to waive voluntarily, P’s eligibility to be an active member of this scheme as a Fair Deal eligible person.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph 2(c), P has not been continuously employed where [F1 P has had a gap] in service of any period.

(4) In determining whether P meets the condition in paragraph (2)(d)—

(a) functions or services carried out by P under another contract are to be disregarded;

(b) if the scheme manager has agreed that P may carry out functions or services in another description of employment specified in a published list, those other functions or services must be treated as if they were the transferred services; and

(c) time spent carrying out activities associated with the transferred services (such as training relevant to the transferred services) may be treated as time spent carrying out the transferred services.

(5) A person who ceases to meet the conditions of eligibility ceases to be a Fair Deal eligible person on the date that the person ceases to meet those conditions.

(6) In these [F2 Regulations] —

“Admission Agreement” means a contractual agreement between the Department and P’s employer (and if applicable a [F3 third party] ) relating to participation in this scheme;

“Fair Deal transfer date” means the date specified in the published list as the date on which a person, in order to be eligible to be an active member of this scheme in respect of the transferred services, must have been employed to carry out those services;

“published list” means a list of persons to whom the scheme relates published for the purposes of section 25(9) of the Act; and

“the transferred services”, in relation to a person, means the functions or services in the description of employment specified in a published list that relates to that person.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 16(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with of the amending Rule) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/67), regs. 1(2), 8(a)

F2 Word in reg. 16(6) substituted (with effect in accordance with of the amending Rule) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/67), regs. 1(2), 8(b)(i)

F3 Words in reg. 16(6) substituted (with effect in accordance with of the amending Rule) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/67), regs. 1(2), 8(b)(ii)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 16 in operation at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(3)