The Health Service Workers (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Transfer values regulations N.I.

11.—(1) The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) are modified as follows.

(2) In the application of regulation 3 of those Regulations (rules on continuation in employment after termination of pensionable service) to P as a member of the old scheme—

(a) in paragraph (1), a reference to employment to which a scheme applies is to be taken as a reference to employment to which the new scheme applies;

(b) in paragraph (1)(a), a reference to P’s pensionable service terminating at P’s request is to be taken as a reference to P’s pensionable service in relation to the new scheme so terminating; and

(c) in paragraph (1)(b)(i), a reference to P’s pensionable service continuing until the guarantee date is to be taken as a reference to P’s pensionable service in relation to the new scheme so continuing.

(3) In the application of regulation 4 of those Regulations (right to further cash equivalent on termination of employment to which the scheme applies) to P as a member of the old scheme, in paragraphs (1), (2), (3)(a) and (4), a reference to termination of P’s employment is to be taken as a reference to termination of P’s employment to which the new scheme applies.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 11 in operation at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1

(1)

S.R. 1996 No. 619.