The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) (Amount Required for Restoring State Scheme Rights) Amendment Regulations 2005

Amendments of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) (Amount Required for Restoring State Scheme Rights and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

3.—(1) The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) (Amount Required for Restoring State Scheme Rights and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(1) (“the 1998 Regulations”) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3(2)(b) (method of calculation where no election to pay a contributions equivalent premium may be made) after “representing–” insert—

“(ia) as regards any relevant employment after 5th April 2002, the weekly amount as specified in paragraph (3);”.

(3) In regulation 3(2)(b)(i) after “1997” insert “and before 6th April 2002”.

(4) After regulation 3(2) add ––

“(3) The weekly amount specified in this paragraph is—

(a) the weekly amount of additional pension to which the member would be entitled in respect of the relevant employment after 5th April 2002 (whether by virtue of his own contributions or, in the case of a surviving spouse member, by virtue of the earner’s contributions) if the scheme had not been a contracted-out scheme, less the weekly amount of any such pension to which he is so entitled despite the scheme being such a scheme; or

(b) the weekly amount of additional pension to which the member would have become so entitled on attaining pensionable age if the scheme had not been such a scheme, less the weekly amount of any such pension to which he will be so entitled despite the scheme being such a scheme.”.

(5) In regulation 4(b) (market level indicator) for “3.5 per cent.” substitute “3 per cent.”.

(6) For the tables in Schedule 1 substitute the tables set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(7) For the table in Schedule 2 substitute the table set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

(1)

S.R. 1998 No. 208. Regulation 4 and Schedule 2 were amended by regulation 2 of S.I. 1999/3069. See also Article 3(2) of, and Schedule 2, to the 1999 Order (which effected a corresponding transfer of functions under S.R. 1998 No. 208.)