The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

CHAPTER 6 Added pension account

Establishment of added pension account

47.—(1) A pension account must be established for each active member (P) who makes an added pension election.

(2) If P is an active member in relation to more than one scheme employment, only one added pension account is to be opened.

(3) For the purpose of these Regulations, an account established under paragraph (1) is called an added pension account.

Account to specify amount of added pension

48.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to every scheme year in which an added pension election has effect.

(2) The added pension account must specify in relation to any added pension payments made in that scheme year the amount of added pension determined by the scheme manager under paragraph 11 or under paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 (payments for added pension) to be credited in respect of that scheme year.

Account to specify opening balance and PIA index adjustment

49.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to every scheme year in which an added pension account is open other than the scheme year in which the account is established.

(2) The account must specify—

(a) the opening balance of added pension for the scheme year and the PIA index adjustment for that opening balance;

(b) if applicable, the age addition awarded at the beginning of the scheme year.

(3) The “opening balance” of added pension—

(a) for the scheme year immediately following the scheme year in which the added pension account is established, means the amount of added pension specified in the account as at the end of the previous scheme year; and

(b) for any subsequent scheme year, means the sum of the following amounts—

(i) the opening balance of added pension for the previous scheme year,

(ii) the PIA index adjustment (if any) for that opening balance,

(iii) if applicable, the age addition awarded at the beginning of the previous scheme year, and

(iv) the amount of added pension for the previous scheme year as at the end of the previous scheme year.

Closure and transfer of added pension account

50.—(1) Where an active member (P) has an added pension account, the added pension account must remain open until—

(a) P has claimed a retirement pension and the amount of added pension is transferred to the retirement account or the deferred member’s account; or

(b) a transfer value payment is made in respect of P’s rights to the accrued added pension; or

(c) where a transfer of entries referred to in paragraph (2) has been completed.

(2) Where a scheme manager has provided a certificate under regulation 154 (requirement for scheme manager to provide a certificate) in respect of an added pension account, the new scheme manager must establish an added pension account and transfer the entries from that certificate to that account.

Ill-health pension ceases to be payable

51.—(1) This regulation applies if—

(a) an added pension is payable with an ill-health award; and

(b) the ill-health award ceases to be payable under regulation 77 (consequences of review).

(2) The added pension account must be re-established and credited with an amount equal to the annual rate of added pension paid to the pensioner member in the last year before the payment of the ill-health award to the member ceased.