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  1. Introductory Text

  2. 1.Citation, commencement, and effect

  3. 2.These Regulations come into operation on 1st April 2024 except...

  4. PART 1 Police Pensions

    1. 3.Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

    2. 4.Interpretation

    3. 5.Police Pension Board: membership

    4. 6.Eligible Service

    5. 7.Periods of unpaid leave

    6. 8.Automatic re-enrolment

    7. 9.Pensionable earnings

    8. 10.Eligibility for payment of ill-health benefits

    9. 11.Meaning of deferred member

    10. 12.Decision of selected medical practitioner

    11. 13.Refusal to be medically examined or attend interviews

    12. 14.Referral of medical questions for purpose of regulation 80

    13. 15.Application of Chapter

    14. 16.Referral of medical questions for purpose of early payment of full retirement pension on grounds of permanent medical unfitness

    15. 17.Qualifying Service

    16. 18.Entitlement to full retirement pension (active members)

    17. 19.Entitlement to full retirement pension (deferred members)

    18. 20.Claim for payment of full retirement pension (active members)

    19. 21.Notice period for active members

    20. 22.Payment thresholds

    21. 23.Entitlement to payment of ill-health pension

    22. 24.Annual rate of ill-health pension under this scheme

    23. 25.Referral of medical question for purpose of reduction of benefits

    24. 26.Reduction of pension in case of default

    25. 27.Refusal to be medically examined

    26. 28.Decision of scheme manager void if appeal against decision of selected medical practitioner is successful

    27. 29.Review of lower tier ill-health pension

    28. 30.Review and cancellation of enhanced upper tier ill-health pension

    29. 31.Review and cancellation of full retirement pension which came into payment early on the grounds of permanent medical unfitness

    30. 32.Decision of scheme manager void if appeal against decision of selected medical practitioner is successful

    31. 33.Option to buy out early payment reduction

    32. 34.Death gratuity – estate

    33. 35.Rate of member’s contribution

    34. 36.Employer contributions

    35. 37.Commutation of small pensions

    36. 38.Interpretation and application

    37. 39.Forfeiture: offences committed by members

    38. 40.Forfeiture: offences committed by a member’s beneficiary

    39. 41.Reduction of benefits where annual allowance charge paid by scheme manager

    40. 42.Medical decisions: appeals and reconsideration

    41. 43.Transitional provisions

  5. PART 2 Police Pensions

    1. 44.Amendment of the Police Pension (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2009

    2. 45.Forfeiture of Pension

  6. PART 3 Police Pensions

    1. 46.Amendment of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions Regulations 1988

    2. 47.Pension debit members

    3. 48.Child’s allowance or special gratuity - limitations

    4. 49.Gratuity in lieu of widow’s pension

    5. 50.Forfeiture of Pension

    6. 51.Schedule A (Glossary of Expressions)

  7. Signature

  8. Explanatory Note

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