Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2015 No. 161
Public Service Pensions
The Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (Judicial Offices) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015
Made
10th March 2015
Coming into operation
1st April 2015
The Department of Justice makes this Order in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014(1)
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (Judicial Offices) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 and comes into operation on 1st April 2015.
Interpretation
2. For the purposes of this Order, an office is “held on a salaried basis” if service in that office is remunerated by payment of a salary.
Judicial Offices
3. A person who holds one of the offices specified in the Schedule is a holder of judicial office for the purposes of section 1(2)(b) of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Justice on 10th March 2015
David Ford
Minister of Justice
Article 3
SCHEDULESpecified Judicial Offices
President of appeals tribunals (within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(2)) appointed under Article 6 of that Order.
Member of a panel constituted under Article 7(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 who is appointed to serve as a member of that panel and is a barrister or solicitor.
President or Vice-President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal, appointed under Article 82 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(3).
Member of a panel of chairmen appointed under Article 82 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.
Member of a panel of chairmen appointed under regulation 4(1)(a) of the Industrial Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005(4).
President or other member of the Lands Tribunal(5), where that office is held on a salaried basis.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order specifies those judicial offices, holders of which are considered to be holders of judicial office for the purposes of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014.
Established by the Lands Tribunal and Compensation Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 (c. 29 (N.I.))