The Health and Social Care (Pension Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Calculating service N.I.

Calculation of periods of membership or service N.I.

12.—(1) References in this Part to any period expressed in days are references to the period in question ignoring 29th February, expressed in days.

(2) For the purposes of the Scheme, and except where provided otherwise in this Part, periods of service are to be expressed in the first instance in complete days or fractions of a day, and the initial aggregation of periods that require to be aggregated is done in the first instance by reference to periods so expressed.

(3) If, when all periods of service that require to be aggregated have been aggregated, there is any excess part day over the number of whole days, that excess is rounded up to a full day.

(4) If service is referred to as service in years and days—

(a) the days referred to in paragraph (2), and

(b) the full days referred to in paragraph (3),

are converted into years and days on the assumption that a year contains 365 days.

(5) If service is referred to as service in years—

(a) the days referred to in paragraph (2), and

(b) the full days referred to in paragraph (3),

are converted into years by dividing the number of days by 365, and using the result to four decimal places.