The Occupational Pension Schemes (Indexation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Indexation of occupational pensions derived from the acceptance of transfer payments from pension schemes

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where a person’s accrued rights to a pension payable under an occupational pension scheme to which Article 51 applies, or any part of them, derive from the allowance by the scheme of a transfer credit in respect of rights which were subject to the indexation requirement or to the requirements of Article 158, in any pension scheme of which that person has previously been a member, Article 51(2) and (3) shall apply to such part of that pension as is attributable to those rights as if they were attributable to pensionable service or to payments in respect of employment on or after the appointed day.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in any case where a person’s accrued rights to a pension payable by an occupational pension scheme referred to in that paragraph, or any part of them, derive from rights which have, at any time prior to the allowance by such a scheme of a transfer credit in respect of them, been held in a personal pension scheme and which were not subject to the requirements of Article 158 in that scheme.