Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015

2—(1) This paragraph sets out the appropriate weekly rate if the person is entitled to a state pension under section 13 because of an old state scheme pension credit. N.I.

(2) If the person became entitled to the old state scheme pension credit in or after the final relevant year, the appropriate weekly rate is a weekly rate equal to the person's notional rate.

(3) If the person became entitled to the old state scheme pension credit before the final relevant year, the appropriate weekly rate is a weekly rate equal to the person's notional rate multiplied by the appropriate revaluation percentage.

(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), a person's “notional rate” is the weekly rate of a notional pension under section 13 the cash equivalent of which would, on the valuation day, have been equal to the amount of the old state scheme pension credit.

(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (4) assume that the notional pension becomes payable on the later of—

(a) the day on which the person reaches pensionable age, and

(b) the valuation day.

(6) The “appropriate revaluation percentage” is the percentage specified, in relation to earnings factors for the tax year in which the person became entitled to the old state scheme pension credit, by the last order under section 130 of the Administration Act to come into operation before the end of the final relevant year.

(7) In this paragraph—

“final relevant year” means the tax year immediately before that in which the person reaches pensionable age;

“valuation day” means the day on which the person became entitled to the old state scheme pension credit.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 8 para. 2 in operation at 6.4.2016, see s. 53(1)(3)