The Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation), Health and Social Care (Pension Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

PART 2 Amendment of the Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

2.  The Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(1) are amended as provided by regulations 3 and 4.

Amendment of regulation 10

3.—(1) Regulation 10 (Contributions by members), is amended as provided by paragraphs (2) to (6).

(2) In paragraph (1A)(2), for “2013-2014” substitute “2014-2015”.

(3) For the table in paragraph (1A) substitute—

“Scheme Year 2014-2015

Column 1	Column 2
Superannuable Pay band	Contribution percentage rate
Up to £15,431	5%
£15,432 to £21,387	5.6%
£21,388 to £26,823	7.1%
£26,824 to £49,472	9.3%
£49,473 to £70,630	12.5%
£70,631 to £111,376	13.5%
£111,377 to any higher amount	14.5%”.

(4) In paragraph (1B)(3), for “2013-2014” substitute “2014-2015”.

(5) For the table in paragraph (1B) substitute—

“Scheme Year 2014-2015

Column 1	Column 2
Superannuable Pay band	Contribution percentage rate
Up to £15,431	5%
£15,432 to £21,387	5.6%
£21,388 to £26,823	7.1%
£26,824 to £49,472	9.3%
£49,473 to £70,630	12.5%
£70,631 to £111,376	13.5%
£111,377 to any higher amount	14.5%”.

(6) For paragraph (6), substitute—

“(6) Where an employing authority has failed to deduct contributions in accordance with paragraph (5), the Department may recover any sum that remains due in respect of those contributions by deduction from any payment by way of benefits to, or in respect of, the member where the Department has notified the member of an intention to do so; this is without prejudice to any other method of recovery”.

Amendment of Schedule 2

4.  In paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 (Contributions to this Section of the scheme), for sub-paragraph (1A)(4) substitute—

“(1A) For the purposes of this paragraph, the “relevant table” means—

(a) in respect of the 2013-2014 scheme year, Table 1;

(b) in respect of the 2014-2015 scheme year, Table 2.

Table 1

Scheme Year 2013-14

Column 1	Column 2
Superannuable Earnings band	Contribution percentage rate
Up to £15,431	5%
£15,432 to £21,387	5.3%
£21,388 to £26,823	6.8%
£26,824 to £49,472 £49,473 to £70,630	9% 11.3%
£70,631 to £111,376	12.3%
£111,377 to any higher amount	13.3%

Table 2

Scheme Year 2014-2015

Column 1	Column 2
Superannuable Earnings band	Contribution percentage rate
Up to £15,431	5%
£15,432 to £21,387	5.6%
£21,388 to £26,823	7.1%
£26,824 to £49,472	9.3%
£49,473 to £70,630	12.5%
£70,631 to £111,376	13.5%
£111,377 to any higher amount	14.5%”.

(1)

S.R. 1995 No.95 as amended by S.R. 1997 Nos.217 and 390; S.R. 1998 No.299; S.R. 1999 No.293; S.R. 2002 No.69; S.R. 2004 Nos.103 and 104; S.R. 2005 Nos.155, 533, 534 and 565; S.R. 2006 Nos.159 and 410; S.R. 2008 Nos.96, 130 and 163; S.R. 2009 Nos.65 and 188; S.R. 2010 Nos.22, 286 and 420; S.R. 2011 No.256; S.R. 2012 Nos.42 and 78; S.R. 2013 Nos.40, 73, 247 and 259

(2)

Paragraph (1A) was substituted by S.R. 2009 No.188, regulation 4; S.R. 2010 No.420, regulation 3(2); S.R. 2012 No.78, regulation 4(2); S.R. 2013 No.73, regulation 6 and S.R. 2013 No.247 regulation 3(2)

(3)

Paragraph (1B) was inserted by S.R. 2013 No.247, regulation 3(2)

(4)

Sub-paragraph (1A) was inserted by S.R. 2010 No.420, regulation 8 and substituted by S.R. 2012 No.78, regulation 8; S.R. 2013 No.73, regulation 7 and amended by S.R. 2013 No.247, regulation 4;