The Health Service Workers (Consequential Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 163

PART 2 Modification of contracting-out provisions

Modification of contracting-out provisions

4.  After regulation 9 of the Health Service Workers (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 insert—

“Protection of increases in guaranteed minimum pensions after abolition of contracting-out

9A.— (1) Chapter 3 of Part 4 of the 1993 Act (protection for early leavers: protection of increases in guaranteed minimum pensions (“anti-franking”)) is modified as follows.

(2) In the application of that Chapter to P as a member of the old scheme—

(a) in section 83(1)(a)(i) (general protection principle), the reference to the time when P ceases to be in pensionable service under a scheme that was, before the second abolition date, a salary-related contracted-out scheme is to be taken as a reference to the time when P ceases to be in pensionable service in relation to the new scheme; and

(b) subsequent references to “the cessation date” are to be construed accordingly.”.