1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Social Care Pension Schemes, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022.
(2) These Regulations come into operation on 16 August 2022.
(3) Regulation 2, the definition of “marriage” and “married” in regulation 3(2) and regulations 4, 11, 12, 13(1), (2) and (4), 14 to 17, 20, 21, 28(1) and (2), 29(1) and (2), 34(1) and (3), 35, 73 and 76 have effect from 5 December 2005.
(4) The definitions of “scheme partner” and “surviving scheme partner” in regulation 3(2) and regulations 9, 10, 13(3), 18, 19, 22 to 26, 28(3), 29(3), 30 to 33, 34(4), 37 to 42, 48 to 53, 69 to 75, and 77 to 79 have effect from 1 April 2008.
(5) Regulations 44 and 55 have effect from 1 October 2009.
(6) Regulations 45 and 56 have effect from 1 April 2010.
(7) Regulations 34(2) and 47 have effect from 1 April 2014.
(8) Regulations 57 to 65, 67, 68, 80 and 81 have effect from 1 April 2015.
(9) Regulations 3(3), 36 and 66 have effect from 1 April 2019.
(10) Regulations 6 to 8 and 27 have effect from 6 April 2019.