Teachers' Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Regulations B1(1) and (2), C6(1) and E14(1)

SCHEDULE 2 Employments Pensionable without Election

Part I

1.  A teacher employed in a grant-aided school in Northern Ireland.

2.  A teacher employed in an institution of further or higher education in Northern Ireland.

3.  A peripatetic teacher employed by an education and library board in Northern Ireland.

4.  A teacher in a college of education as defined in Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1).

5.  A teacher in the University of Ulster on 1st October 1984 who was employed in reckonable service as a teacher in the Ulster Polytechnic on 30th September 1984 unless he elected by notice in writing served on the Department not later than 30th September 1985, that service with the University of Ulster as from the date specified in the notice, not being later than 1st October 1985, should no longer be pensionable service.

6.  A teacher in a training school or a remand home, as those expressions are defined in section 180(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968(2) who is recognised by the Northern Ireland Office after consultation with the Department as duly qualified at the commencement of the service to teach in such training school or remand home.

Part II Employments Pensionable on Election

7.  A teacher of a kind other than is specified in Part I who—

(a) is employed by an education and library board and with the agreement of the Department and his employer, elects within 6 months of the commencement of his employment; or

(b) is employed by a person or body in respect of whose expenditure for the purpose for which he is employed grants are made either by the Department or by an education and library board and, with the agreement of the Department and his employer, elects within 6 months of the commencement of his employment; or

(c) immediately before 1st April 1987 was a Mental Health Officer within the meaning of the Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984(3) and was transferred to the employment of an education and library board on that date under the Education (Transfer of Officers) Scheme 1987(4) and elects within six months of the date of transfer.

8.  An organiser who is employed as youth and community worker, either by an education and library board for the purpose of its functions under Article 37 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 or by a body in respect of whose expenditure grants are made by an education and library board acting in the exercise of those functions, who is accepted by the Department for the purpose of this Schedule and who, with the consent of his employer, elects within 6 months of the commencement of his employment.

9.  An organiser, not falling within paragraph 8, in the employment of—

(a) an education and library board; or

(b) a person or body other than an education and library board in respect of whose expenditure grants are paid by the Department; who is accepted by the Department for the purposes of this Schedule and who elects within 3 months of the commencement of his employment.

10.  In this Schedule “elects” means elects by notice in writing to the Department that the employment mentioned shall be pensionable employment.

(1)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)

(2)

1968 c. 34 (N.I.): Section 180(1) was amended by S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2) Article 185(1) and paragraph 53 of Schedule 9

(3)

S.R. 1984 No 336 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

(4)

S.I. 1987/167 (N.I. 2)