The Health and Social Care Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 No. 122

PART 2 N.I. Transitional provisions

CHAPTER 3 N.I. Membership status and breaks in service

Casual staff and locums not working on eligibility date N.I.

9.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where, on the date a person becomes eligible to join the new scheme, that person—

(a) is—

(i) employed on a casual basis and has ceased to pay contributions under regulation 5(4A)(1) of the 1995 Regulations or 10(2) of the 2008 Regulations; or

(ii) a locum practitioner and has ceased to pay contributions under paragraph 9A(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Regulations or regulation 141(2) of the 2008 Regulations; and

(b) has ceased to pay those contributions because of a break which, on the date they become eligible to join the new scheme, is a break not exceeding a period of three months (“a relevant break”),

(2) Regulation 22(5) and (6) of the 2015 Regulations applies as though the member’s relevant break had commenced whilst the member was an active member of the new scheme.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 9 in operation at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(1)

(1)

Paragraph (4A) was inserted by S.R. 2004 No.103 regulation 3(c)

(2)

Paragraph 9A was inserted by S.R. 2005 No.534 regulation 4(70