Teachers' Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

9.—(1) If—

(a) the previous scheme is a club scheme service under which is not comparable service; or

(b) the previous scheme is a personal pension scheme or an approved superannuation scheme which is not a club scheme and the person has entered pensionable employment after 31st December 1985,

he is entitled, unless paragraph 10 applies, to count as reckonable service the period specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) The period is one equal to the period of reckonable service that would enable the Department to pay a transfer value, calculated on an actuarial basis, of the same amount as the one accepted.

(3) In calculating the period specified in sub-paragraph (2)—

(a) if sub-paragraph (1)(a) applies and the request for the transfer value to be accepted was made within 12 months after the date which the person entered pensionable employment, the calculation shall be made by reference to the age and salary notified by the scheme managers of the previous scheme as those by reference to which the transfer value accepted was calculated;

(b) if sub-paragraph (1)(b) applies and the transfer value was received within 12 months after the date on which the person entered pensionable employment, the calculation shall be made by reference to his age, and the annual rate of his contributable salary, on that date;

(c) in any other case, the calculation shall be made by reference to his age, and the annual rate of his contributable salary, on the date on which the transfer value was received;

(d) if sub-paragraph (1)(a) applies any sum representing interest that is included in the transfer value shall not be taken into account; and

(e) if sub-paragraph (1)(b) applies any sum referred to in head (d) shall be taken into account.