1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Consequential Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016.
(2) With the exception of regulation 4, these Regulations come into operation on 1st April 2016.
(3) Regulation 4 comes into operation on the same day as paragraph 38 of Schedule 13 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015(1) comes into operation, and on that day regulation 9 of the Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015(2) ceases to have effect.
2. In these Regulations—
“the 1993 Act” means the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993(3);
“the 2014 Act” means the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014;
“the new scheme” means the scheme established by regulation 3 of the Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014(4); and
“the old scheme” means the scheme made under Article 3 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(5) (superannuation schemes respects civil servants etc.) which is the principal civil service pension scheme (Northern Ireland) within the meaning of Article 4(10) of that Order (further provisions relating to schemes under Article 3).