The Police Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023

Interpretation N.I.

1.—(1) In this Schedule—

“beneficiary” means a person who has become entitled to receive any death benefit;

“child”, except in the term “eligible child”, means a person under the age of 18;

“death benefit” means a benefit payable under a police pension scheme in relation a member of that scheme who has died;

“election” means an opted-out service election, an immediate choice decision or a deferred choice decision;

“eligible decision-maker” means the person who may make—

(a)

an opted-out service election in accordance with in regulation 6(2)(b);

(b)

an immediate choice decision in accordance with regulation 8(2)(b);

(c)

a deferred choice decision in accordance with regulation 12(2)(b);

“surviving adult” has the meaning given in regulation 134 of the 2015 Regulations.

(2) In this Schedule, a reference to

(a) —a beneficiary is a reference

(i) a beneficiary of death benefits in relation to M’s remediable police service;

(ii) where benefits in relation to M’s remediable police service are legacy scheme benefits, a person who would be a beneficiary of death benefits in relation to M’s remediable police service if the benefits in relation to that service were reformed scheme benefits;

(b) an eligible child is a reference to an eligible child of M;

(c) M is a reference to the remedy member in respect of whose remediable police service an election may be made;

(d) a surviving adult is a reference to a surviving adult in relation to M.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. para. 1 in operation at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(b)