The Health and Social Care (Pension Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Introduction: rights to transfer value payment

220.—(1) This Chapter supplements the rights conferred by or under Chapter IV of Part IV of the 1993 Act (transfer values) and applies to practitioners.

(2) This Chapter is without prejudice to that Chapter or Chapter V of that Part(1) (early leavers: cash transfer sums and contribution refunds).

(3) Accordingly—

(a) a member to whom Chapter IV of that Part applies (see section 89(1)(a) of that Act) is entitled to require the payment of a transfer value in respect of the rights to benefit that have accrued to or in respect of the member under the Scheme, and

(b) a member to whom Chapter V of that Part applies (see section 97AA(1) of that Act) is entitled to a cash transfer sum or a contribution refund in accordance with that Chapter.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5) and the other provisions of this Chapter, any other member is entitled to require such a payment as if such rights had accrued to or in respect of him by reference to the pensionable service the member is entitled to count under the Scheme (and references in this Chapter to the member’s accrued rights or benefits are to be read accordingly).

(5) Paragraph (4) does not—

(a) give any rights to an active member,

(b) give any rights to a pensioner member in respect of the pension to which the member has become entitled, or

(c) give any rights to a pension credit member in respect of rights that are directly attributable to a pension credit.

(1)

Chapter 5 (sections 97AA to 97AI) is inserted by Article 241 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (No. 255 N.I. 1)).