The Health and Social Care Pension Schemes (Partial Retirement etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024

Amendment of Schedule 1N.I.

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

41.  In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1(eligibility of 1995 Section pensioners to join the new scheme)(1), at the end of the table insert—

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a 1995 Section pensioner in receipt of a tier 2 pension under regulation 13A of the 1995 Regulations—

(a) who returns to HSC employment and the first anniversary of that return is on or after 1st April 2024; and

(b) whose protection period for the purposes of regulation 13C of the 1995 Regulations spans 1st April 2023 or begins on or after 1st April 2024.

eligible to be an active member of the new scheme on the day after the protection period in regulation 13C(6)(b) of the 1995 Regulations ends.
10a 1995 Section pensioner, other than a tier 2 ill-health pensioner, who does not fall within one of the Groups above.eligible to be an active member of the new scheme, or re-join the new scheme, on the first day on or after 1st April 2024 on which the member is in an employment that would, apart from the operation of regulation 19(d) of the 2015 Regulations, otherwise be eligible for membership under those Regulations.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 41 in operation at 1.4.2024, see reg. 1

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The table in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 was amended by S.R. 2022 No 156 and S.R. 2022 No 244.