The Health and Social Care Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Members' contributions: practitioners and non-GP providersN.I.

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31.—(1) This regulation applies to an active member (M) who belongs to group D in regulation 27(1).

(2) M must make contributions to this scheme (“members' contributions”)—

(a)in respect of M's pensionable earnings;

(b)at M's contribution rate for the scheme year in question.

(3) M's contribution rate for each [F1scheme year from 2015/16] is the percentage specified in column 2 of the [F2tables] in paragraph (9) (“the Table”) in respect of the corresponding pensionable earnings band specified in column 1 of the Table into which the M's pensionable earnings fall.

(4) The Department must—

(a)With the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel; and

(b)Having considered the advice of the scheme actuary,

determine the pensionable earnings bands and contribution percentage rates in the [F3tables] set out in this regulation in respect of each subsequent scheme year.

(5) In determining members' contributions payable in accordance with this regulation, the [F4Department] must take account of pensionable earnings from all practitioner service.

(6) An employing authority that is not the RHSCB, in respect of pensionable earnings it pays to M, must take advice from the RHSCB in determining the contributions payable in accordance with this regulation.

(7) If M is engaged under a contract of service or for services by an employing authority or is a partner or shareholder in an employing authority that is not an OOH provider, the employing authority must—

(a)deduct contributions due under this regulation from any pensionable earnings it pays to M, and

(b)if it is not also the [F5Department] , pay the contributions to the [F5Department] not later than the 7th day of the month following the month in which the earnings were paid.

(8) In any other case, M must pay members' contributions to the [F6Department] not later than the 7th day of the month following the month in which the earnings were paid.

[F7(9) For the purposes of this regulation “the relevant table” means—

(a)in respect of [F8the scheme year 2022/23, Table 1A and Table 1B as applicable] ;

(b)in respect of [F9scheme year 2023/24 and each subsequent scheme year] , Table 2 [F10;

(c)in respect of the scheme years 2024/25 to 2027/28, Table 3]

[F11Table 1A Scheme Year 2022/23 from 1 April 2022 to 31stOctober 2022 (both dates inclusive)]

Column 1

Pensionable earnings band

Column 2

Contribution percentage rate

Up to £15,4315.0%
£15,432 to £21,4775.6%
£21,478 to £26,8237.1%
£26,824 to £47,8459.3%
£47,846 to £70,63012.5%
£70,631 to £111,37613.5%
£111,377 to any higher amount14.5%
[F12Table 1B Scheme Year 2022/23 from 1 November 2022 to 31 March 2023 (both dates inclusive)
Column 1Column 2
Pensionable earnings bandContribution percentage rate
Up to £13,2465.1%
£13,247 to £16,8315.7%
£16,832 to £22,8786.1%
£22,879 to £23,9486.8%
£23,949 to £28,2237.7%
£28,224 to £29,1798.8%
£29,180 to £43,8059.8%
£43,806 to £49,24510.0%
£49,246 to £56,16311.6%
£56,164 to £72,03012.5%
£72,031 and above13.5%]
Table 2 Scheme [F13Year 2023/24 and each subsequent scheme year]
[F14Column 1Column 2
Pensionable earnings bandContribution percentage rate
Up to £13,2465.1%
£13,247 to £17,6735.7%
£17,674 to £24,0226.1%
£24,023 to £25,1466.8%
£25,147 to £29,6357.7%
£29,636 to £30,6388.8%
£30,639 to £45,9969.8%
£45,997 to £51,70810.0%
£51,709 to £58,97211.6%
£58,973 to £75,63212.5%
£75,633 and above13.5%]
[F15Table 3 Scheme Years 2024/25 to 2027/28
Column 1Column 2
Pensionable earnings bandContribution percentage rate
Up to £13,2595.2%
£13,260 to £26,8316.5%
£26,832 to £32,6918.3%
£32,692 to £49,0789.8%
£49,079 to £62,92410.7%
£62,925 and above12.5%]

(10) Regulations 37 and 38 and Schedule 10 make provision supplementary to this regulation and references in those regulations to [F16the relevant table] must be construed in accordance with paragraph (3).]

[F17(11) The figures in column 1 of Table 3 (except the figures £13,259 and £13,260) are to be increased at the beginning of each scheme year starting with the scheme year 2025/26 and ending with (and including) scheme year 2027/28, if there is a relevant increase in the consumer prices index for that scheme year, by the appropriate percentage for the scheme year rounded up to the nearest £1.

(12) For the purposes of paragraph (11)—

(a)there is a relevant increase in the consumer prices index for a scheme year if the consumer prices index for the month of September before that scheme year is higher than that for the previous September;

(b)the appropriate percentage for the scheme year is the same percentage as any percentage increase in the consumer prices index over the period specified by sub-paragraph (a);

(c)the “consumer prices index” means the general index of consumer prices (for all items) published by the Statistics Board, a body corporate established by section 1 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007;

(d)where there is a relevant increase after the 1st April 2025, the figures to be increased on the relevant date are the figures applicable to the previous scheme year.]

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