PART 2N.I.Amendments to the Health and Social Care Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Amendment of regulation 31N.I.

4.—(1) Regulation 31 (Members’ contributions: practitioners and non-GP providers)(1) is amended as provided by paragraphs (2) to (5).

(2) For paragraph (3) substitute —

(3) “M’s contribution rate for the scheme year in question is the percentage specified in column 2 of the relevant table in paragraph (9) in respect of the corresponding pensionable earnings band specified in column 1 of the relevant Table into which the M’s pensionable earnings fall.”

(4) In paragraph (4), for “the Table” substitute “paragraph (9)”.

(5) For paragraph (9) substitute—

(9) For the purposes of this regulation “the relevant table” means—

(a)in respect of each scheme year from 2015/16 to 2021/22, Table 1;

(b)in respect of scheme year 2022/23, Table 2.

Table 1 Scheme Years from 2015/16 to 2021/22

Column 1

Pensionable earnings band

Column 2

Contribution percentage rate

Up to £15,4315.0%
£15,432 to £21,4775.6%
£21,478 to £26,8237.1%
£26,824 to £47,8459.3%
£47,846 to £70,63012.5%
£70,631 to £111,37613.5%
£111,377 to any higher amount14.5%

Table 2 Scheme Year 2022/23

Column 1

Pensionable earnings band

Column 2

Contribution percentage rate

Up to £13,2315.1%
£13,232 to £15,4315.7%
£15,432 to £21,4786.1%
£21,479 to £22,5486.8%
£22,549 to £26,8237.7%
£26,824 to £27,7798.8%
£27,780 to £42,1209.8%
£42,121 to £47,84510.0%
£47,846 to £54,76311.6%
£54,764 to £70,63012.5%
£70,631 and above13.5%

(6) In paragraph (10), for “the Table” substitute “the relevant table”.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 4 in operation at 1.11.2022, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

Regulation 31 as amended by S.R. 2019 No.62, regulation 15