The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

[F1 Interpretation N.I.

32K.— (1) In this Part—

[F2 “actuary” means an actuary appointed by the scheme or the employer;]

“alternative requirement” means an alternative requirement prescribed by regulation 32E, [F3 32EA,] 32F or 32G, including regulations 32E and 32F as modified by regulation 32I;

“basic pay” means the gross earnings of the jobholder from the jobholder's employment by the employer, disregarding the gross amount of—

(a)

any commission, bonuses, overtime or similar payments;

(b)

any shift premium pay, and

(c)

any reasonable allowance with respect to—

(i)

any duty of the jobholder, such as a duty in connection with the role of fire or bomb warden, that is ancillary to the main duties of the jobholder's employment;

(ii)

the cost of relocation of the jobholder to a different place of work;

(iii)

in a case not covered by sub-paragraph (ii), the purchase, lease or maintenance of a vehicle;

(iv)

in a case not covered by sub-paragraph (ii) or (iii), the purchase, lease or maintenance of an item;

(v)

in a case not covered by sub-paragraph (ii), (iii) or (iv), the delivery of a service to the jobholder;

“certification period” means the period for which a certificate is in force;

[F4 “collective money purchase scheme” has the meaning set out in section 52(2) of the Pension Schemes Act 2021;]

“earnings” has the same meaning as in section 13(3) (qualifying earnings);

“pensionable earnings” means the gross earnings of the jobholder on which contributions are payable to the pension scheme in question by the employer or the jobholder;

“shift premium pay” means, where the employer applies different rates of pay to different periods of time for which the jobholder works within a certification period, the difference between the earnings that result from the application of the different rates of pay to the periods to which each of them respectively applies and the earnings that would result from the application of the lowest of the different rates of pay to the total time worked during the certification period.

(2) In regulations 32E to 32J and this regulation “certificate” means a certificate that is given in accordance with regulations 32B to 32D.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 7A inserted (1.7.2012) by The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/237), regs. 1(1)(a), 2(3)

F2 Words in reg. 32K(1) inserted (26.1.2024) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/15), regs. 1, 36, Sch. 7 para. 2(6)(a)

F3 Word in reg. 32K(1) inserted (26.1.2024) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/15), regs. 1, 36, Sch. 7 para. 2(6)(b)

F4 Words in reg. 32K(1) inserted (26.1.2024) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/15), regs. 1, 36, Sch. 7 para. 2(6)(c)