The Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Rate of member contributions N.I.

124.—(1) An active member of this scheme must pay contributions to this scheme (“member contributions”) on the member's pensionable earnings for each pay period at a rate determined under this regulation (“member contributions rate”).

(2) The member contributions rate which applies to a member's pensionable earnings is the rate which applies when the member's pensionable earnings are paid.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), assumed pay for any pay period is treated as having been paid when pensionable earnings for that period would have been paid had the circumstances in regulation 24(3) which apply to the member not applied.

(4) The member contributions rate during a scheme year to which [F1 the table at the end of] this regulation applies is the percentage, set out in [F2 column 2 of the table], which applies to a member's annualised rate of pensionable earnings [F3 (see column 1 of the table)] calculated in relation to each payment of a member's pensionable earnings.

[F4 (4A) The figures in column 1 of the table (except for the figures of £150,001) are increased on 1st April 2021 and on 1st April of each subsequent scheme year, if there is a relevant increase in the consumer prices index, by appropriate percentage for the scheme year, rounded up to the nearest £1.

(4B) 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.

(4C) The appropriate percentage for the scheme year is the same percentage as the percentage increase in the consumer prices index.]

(5) Where the member's pensionable earnings for a scheme year are payable to the member in 12 instalments, the member's annualised rate of pensionable earnings is calculated as follows, rounded down to the nearest whole pound—

where P is the amount of a payment of the member's pensionable earnings.

(6) Where the member's pensionable earnings for a scheme year are payable otherwise than in 12 instalments, the member's annualised rate of pensionable earnings is calculated as follows, rounded down to the nearest whole pound—

where—

P is the amount of a payment of the member's pensionable earnings; and

N is the number of days in the applicable payment period.

(7) For the purposes of paragraph (6) the applicable payment period is—

(a) if it is the member's first payment of pensionable earnings in relation to a continuous period of pensionable service in a qualifying judicial office, the number of days in the period beginning on the day the member commenced the period of pensionable service in the qualifying judicial office and ending on the day before the day that this payment was made; or

(b) in any other case, the period beginning on the day the previous payment of the member's pensionable earnings was made and ending on the day before the day that this payment was made.

(8) If the scheme year in which the payment of pensionable earnings is made includes the day 29th February, paragraph (6) has effect with the substitution for “365” of “366”.

[F5 (9) In this regulation, “the consumer prices index” means the all items consumer prices index published by the Statistics Board, a body corporate established by section 1 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.]

[F6 Contributions table for scheme year 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021

Column 1 Annualised rate of pensionable earnings	Column 2 Member contributions rate
Up to but not including £22,005	4.6%
£22,005 to but not including £52,392	5.45%
£52,392 to but not including £150,001	7.35%
£150,001 and above	8.05%]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 124(4) substituted (1.4.2020) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/10), regs. 1, 2(a)(i)

F2 Words in reg. 124(4) substituted (1.4.2020) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/10), regs. 1, 2(a)(ii)

F3 Words in reg. 124(4) inserted (1.4.2020) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/10), regs. 1, 2(a)(iii)

F4 Reg. 124(4A)-(4C) inserted (1.4.2020) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/10), regs. 1, 2(b)

F5 Reg. 124(9) inserted (1.4.2020) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/10), regs. 1, 2(c)

F6 Reg. 124 Table substituted (1.4.2020) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/10), regs. 1, 2(d)