The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

Equal treatment in relation to official pensions

163.—(1) Section 3 of the Pensions (Increase) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971(1) (qualifying conditions for pensions increase) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2)(c), omit “is a woman who”.

(3) In subsection (10)—

(a) for “woman is in receipt of a pension” substitue “person is in receipt of a pension the whole or any part of”, and

(b) for “woman and that pension” substitute “person and that pension and that pension or part”.

(4) In subsection (11)—

(a) for “woman's” substitute “person's”, and

(b) for “woman” substitute “persons,”

and accordingly for “she” substitute “he”.

(5) This Article has effect, and shall be deemed to have had effect, in relation to pensions commencing after 17th May 1990, and in relation to so much of any such pension as is referable to service on or after that date.

(1)

1971 c. 35 (N.I.).