The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

[F1 Terminal illness lump sum: effect of successful application N.I.

F1 Sch. 6 paras. 25B-25F and preceding cross headings inserted (1.4.2009 for certain purposes otherwise prosp.) by Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 13), ss. 100, 118(1), Sch. 6 para. 14; S.R. 2009/147, art. 2(a)(iii)(b)

25E— (1) If the Board grants an application for a terminal illness lump sum, the applicant— N.I.

(a) becomes entitled to a terminal illness lump sum calculated in accordance with this paragraph, and

(b) loses the entitlement the applicant otherwise would have had on attaining the relevant age to relevant compensation in relation to the scheme.

(2) The amount of the terminal illness lump sum is 2 times the sum of—

(a) the periodic compensation annual amount, and

(b) the lump sum compensation annual amount.

(3)  In sub-paragraph (2) “ the periodic compensation annual amount ” means the annual amount to which the applicant would have been entitled under paragraph 11 or 15 in relation to the scheme in the year following the granting of the application, if the applicant had attained the relevant age on the granting of the application.

(4)  In sub-paragraph (2) “ the lump sum compensation annual amount ” means the annualised value of the lump sum to which the applicant would have been entitled under paragraph 14 or 19 in relation to the scheme on the granting of the application, if the applicant had attained the relevant age on the granting of the application.

(5) In sub-paragraph (4) “the annualised value” of a lump sum means the annualised actuarially equivalent amount of that sum, determined in accordance with actuarial factors published by the Board.

(6)  In this paragraph “ relevant compensation ” and “ the relevant age ” have the same meanings as in paragraph 25B.

[F2 (7) Where on the granting of the application—

(a) the commencement of a person's periodic compensation under paragraph 11 or 15 is postponed by virtue of paragraph 25A, or

(b) the payment of a person's lump sum compensation under paragraph 14 or 19 is postponed by virtue of that paragraph,

this paragraph applies as if the references to the person attaining the relevant age were references to the period of postponement ending.]]

F2 Sch. 6 para. 25E(7) inserted (27.3.2013) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), s. 34(3), Sch. 4 para. 26(2); S.R. 2013/83, art. 2(b)(ii)