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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4GENERAL MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

The Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 (c. 49)

7.  In section 94 (variation and loss of rights to cash equivalents)—

(a)in subsection (1), after “occupational pension scheme” insert “other than a salary related scheme”,

(b)after that subsection insert—

(1A) Regulations may provide that a member of a salary related occupational pension scheme who continues in employment to which the scheme applies after his pensionable service in that employment terminates—

(a)acquires a right to only part of his guaranteed cash equivalent, or

(b)acquires no right to his guaranteed cash equivalent;,

(c)in subsection (2), after “(1)” insert “or (1A)”, and

(d)in subsection (3)—

(i)in paragraph (a), after “occupational pension scheme” insert “other than a salary related scheme”, and

(ii)for paragraph (b) and the “and” immediately preceding it substitute—

or

(aa)by virtue of regulations under subsection (1A) or (2), a member of a salary related occupational pension scheme does not, on such termination, acquire a right to the whole or any part of his guaranteed cash equivalent,

and his employment terminates at least one year before normal pension age.