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[F1(1)In relation to any period before the second abolition date, the employment of an earner in employed earner's employment was “contracted-out employment” in relation to the earner during that period if—
(a)the earner was under pensionable age;
(b)the earner's service in the employment was service which qualified the earner for a pension provided by a salary related contracted-out scheme; and
(c)there was in force a contracting-out certificate issued in accordance with this Chapter (as it then had effect) stating that the employment was contracted-out employment by reference to the scheme.]
[F2(1A)In addition, in relation to any period before [F3the first abolition date], the employment of an earner in employed earner's employment was “contracted-out employment” in relation to him during that period if—
(a)he was under pensionable age;
(b)his employer made minimum payments in respect of his employment to a money purchase contracted-out scheme, and
(c)there was in force a contracting-out certificate issued in accordance with this Chapter (as it then had effect) stating that the employment was contracted-out employment by reference to the scheme.]
[F4(1B)In the following provisions of this Act “earner”, in relation to a scheme, means a person who was an earner in contracted-out employment by reference to the scheme.]
(2)In this Act—
“guaranteed minimum pension” means any pension which is provided [F5, by a scheme that was a salary related contracted-out scheme,] in accordance with the requirements of sections 9 and 13 to the extent to which its weekly rate is equal to the earner’s or, as the case may be, the earner’s [F6widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner's] guaranteed minimum as determined for the purposes of those sections respectively; and
“minimum payment”, in relation to an earner’s employment in any tax week, means the rebate percentage of so much of the earnings paid to or for the benefit of the earner in that week as exceeds the current lower earnings limit but not [F7the applicable limit] (or the prescribed equivalents if he is paid otherwise than weekly);
[F8and for the purposes of this subsection “rebate percentage” means the appropriate flatrate percentage [F9for the tax year in which the week falls as specified in an order made under section 38B (as it had effect before [F10the first abolition date])]].
[F11(2A)In subsection (2) “the applicable limit” means—
(a)in relation to a tax year before 2009–10, the upper earnings limit;
(b)in relation to 2009–10 or any subsequent tax year, the upper accrual point.]
F12(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F13(4)A contracting-out certificate that was in force in respect of an employed earner's employment is to be taken as conclusive that the employment was, at that time, contracted-out employment.]
[F14(5)Regulations shall provide for the determination by the [F15Department] of any question whether an employment is to be treated as contracted-out employment or as to the persons in relation to whom, or the period for which, an employment is to be so treated.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 4(1) substituted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 7(2)
F2S. 4(1A) inserted (6.4.2012) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 1), ss. 13(4), 21(1), Sch. 4 para. 3(3) (with Sch. 4 Pt. 3); S.R. 2012/115, art. 2
F3Words in s. 4(1A) substituted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 2
F4S. 4(1B) inserted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 7(3)
F5Words in s. 4(2) substituted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 7(4)
F6Words in s. 4(2) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Contracted-out Occupational and Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) (Surviving Civil Partners) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/433), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 2
F7Words in s. 4(2) substituted (15.12.2008) by Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 13), s. 118(2), Sch. 7 para. 8(2) (with s. 73)
F8Words in s. 4(2) substituted (6.4.1997) by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), arts. 1(2), 147, Sch. 3 para. 16(a); S.R. 1997/192, art. 2(b)
F9Words in s. 4(2) substituted (6.4.2012) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 1), ss. 13(4), 21(1), Sch. 4 para. 3(4) (with Sch. 4 Pt. 3); S.R. 2012/115, art. 2
F10Words in s. 4(2) substituted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 2
F11S. 4(2A) inserted (15.12.2008) by Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 13), s. 118(2), Sch. 7 para. 8(3) (with s. 73)
F12S. 4(3) repealed (6.4.2015) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 1), s. 21(1), Sch. 4 para. 46, Sch. 6 Pt. 7; S.R. 2012/115, art. 2(2)(a)(iv)(b)
F13S. 4(4) substituted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 7(5)
F14S. 4(5) omitted and repealed (6.4.1997) by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), arts. 1(2), 147, 168, Sch. 3 para. 16(b), Sch. 5 Pt. III; S.R. 1997/192, art. 2(b)
F15Words in s. 4 substituted (6.4.1997) by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), art. 147, Sch. 3 paras. 13, 14(a) Table; S.R. 1997/192, art. 2(b)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 4(2) modified (6.4.1997) by S.R. 1996/509, reg. 6(2)
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