Teachers' Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

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(1) and was transferred to the employment of an education and library board on that date under the Education (Transfer of Officers) Scheme 1987(2) 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.R. 1984 No 336 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

(2)

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