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PART IIPRIMARY PROVISIONS

CHAPTER IMEMBERSHIP

Eligibility for active membership

Further restrictions on eligibility

5.—(1) If a person’s employment entitles him to belong to another statutory pension scheme, that employment does not entitle him to be a member, unless that other scheme was made under Article 9 of the Order of 1972.

(2) A statutory pension scheme is an occupational pension scheme provided by or under an enactment.

(3) A person may not become a member after his 65th birthday.

(4) Part-time employment as a member of a fire brigade maintained in pursuance of the Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1984(1) on terms under which the employee is or may be required to engage in fire fighting does not entitle the employee to be a member of the Scheme.

(5) Any person who as a member of staff of the University of Ulster is eligible to participate in the Universities' Superannuation Scheme is not entitled to be a member of the Scheme.

(6) A person who is a member and is an employee of a transferee admission body is treated as leaving a local government employment when he ceases to be employed in connection with the services or assets referred to in the transfer arrangement.