The Health and Social Care Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

1.—(1) The categories or descriptions of persons to whom the scheme may be extended by determination pursuant to section 25 of the 2014 Act are as follows.

(2) Any person, or any class of persons who is—

(a) wholly or mainly engaged in health services; or

(b) an officer of a government department serving on the medical or nursing staff of that department or at or for the purposes of a hospital maintained by that department,

and who, if he were in the employment of an HSC organisation, would be eligible to join the scheme.

(3) A person who, while continuing in, or within twelve months after leaving, employment in which that person was entitled to participate in pension benefits provided by this scheme or a connected scheme (any period spent by that person on an approved course of study or training being left out of account), enters such other employment as may be approved by the Department for the purposes of these Regulations.

(4) An approval given for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) may specify provisions of these regulations which—

(a) are not to apply to the person, or

(b) are to apply to the person subject to such modifications as are specified.