PART 2Transitional provisions

CHAPTER 4Contributions and final pay

Uprating of old scheme practitioner earnings18.

F1(1)

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), in relation to a practitioner transition member as regards the period after 31st March 2015 in which the member is a member of the new scheme.

(a)

paragraph 11(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Regulations; and

(b)

regulation 176(4) of the 2008 Regulations,

apply as though the words “the annual increase due under the provisions of the Pensions (Increase) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and Article 69 of the Social Security Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1975, plus” were omitted.

F2(2)

Paragraph (3) applies if a practitioner transition member is purchasing additional service pursuant to regulation 22 (Existing additional service and unreduced lump sum contracts).

(3)

Paragraph (1) does not apply for the purposes of calculating that member’s uprated pensionable earnings in relation to that purchase for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 20 of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Regulations.