Textual Amendments
F1Pts. 4, 5 renumbered as Pt. 4ZA Chs. 1, 2 and Pt. 4ZA heading inserted (6.4.2015) by Pension Schemes Act 2015 (c. 8), s. 89(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 50(1)(2)(a) (with s. 87)
Textual Amendments
F2Pt. 4 Ch. 5 inserted (1.1.2006 for specified purposes, 6.4.2006 in so far as not already in force) by The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)), arts. 1(2), 241 (with art. 285(5)); S.R. 2005/543, art. 2(5), Sch. Pt. 5
F3Pt. 4ZA Ch. 2 heading substituted (6.4.2015) by Pension Schemes Act 2015 (c. 8), s. 89(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 50(1)(2)(c) (with s. 87)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 4 Ch. 5: power to modify conferred (1.1.2006) by The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)), arts. 1(2), 20(7)(b) (with art. 285(5)); S.R. 2005/48, art. 2(7), Sch. Pt. 7
C2Pt. 4 Ch. 5 applied by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), art. 73(9) (as substituted (6.4.2005 for specified purposes, 1.1.2006 in so far as not already in force) by The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)), arts. 1(2), 247 (with art. 285(5)); S.R. 2005/48, art. 2(4)(a)(b), Sch. Pt. 4 (with art. 2(8)(9)))
C3Pt. 4 Ch. 5 excluded (1.1.2006) by The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 20(1)(c); S.R. 2005/48, art. 2(7), Sch. Pt. 7
C4Pt. 4 Ch. 5 modified (1.4.2009) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/33), regs. 1, 74(1)(3)(7)
C5Pt. 4 Ch. 5 excluded (24.7.2014) by The Pensions (2012 Act) (Transitional, Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/204), regs. 1(1), 55(1)(c)
C6Pt. 4 Ch. 5 modified (1.4.2015) by The Teachers Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/170), regs. 1, 12(1)
C7Pt. 4 Ch. 5 modified (1.4.2015) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/81), regs. 1(1), 12(1)
C8Pt. 4 Ch. 5 modified (1.4.2015) by The Police Pensions (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/156), regs. 1(2), 12(1)
C9Pt. 4 Ch. 5 modified (1.4.2015) by The Health Service Workers (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/167), regs. 1, 12(1)
C10Pt. 4 Ch. 5 modified (1.4.2015) by The Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/76), reg. 1(3), Sch. 3 para. 10(1)
C11Pt. 4ZA Ch. 2: power to modify conferred (11.2.2021 for specified purposes) by Pension Schemes Act 2021 (c. 1), s. 131(1)(3)(a), Sch. 5 para. 1(6)(b)
(1)This Chapter applies to any member of an occupational pension scheme to which Chapter 1 applies (see section 65(3)) if—
(a)his pensionable service terminates before he attains normal pension age, and
(b)on the date on which his pensionable service terminates—
(i)the three month condition is satisfied, but
(ii)he does not have relevant accrued rights to benefit under the scheme.
(2)For the purposes of subsection (1), the three month condition is that the period of the member's pensionable service under the scheme, taken together with—
(a)any previous period of his pensionable service under the scheme, and
(b)any period throughout which he was employed in linked qualifying service under another scheme,
amounts to at least three months.
(3)A period counts for the purposes of paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (2) only so far as it counts towards qualification for long service benefit within the meaning of Chapter 1.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (1), “relevant accrued rights to benefit under the scheme”, in relation to a member of a scheme, means rights which—
(a)have accrued to or in respect of him under the scheme, and
(b)entitle him to the relevant benefits which would have accrued to or in respect of him under the applicable rules if paragraphs (a) [F4, (aa)] and (b) of section 67(1) (and the word “and” immediately preceding them) did not have effect.
(5)References in the following provisions of this Chapter to a member, in relation to an occupational pension scheme, are to a member of the scheme to which this Chapter applies.]
Textual Amendments
F4Word in s. 97AA(4)(b) inserted (1.10.2015) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), ss. 35(4), 53(1); S.R. 2015/307, art. 2(3)