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PART 3Amendment of the Health and Social Care (Pension Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Amendment of regulation 154

39.  For paragraph (1) of regulation 154 (Restrictions on eligibility: general), substitute—

(1) A person is not eligible to be an active member of this Section of the Scheme if the person—

(a)became a pensioner member of the 1995 Section or a corresponding 1995 scheme on, or before, 1st April 2008 (except if paragraph (1)(b)(i) of regulation 153A applies to that person); or

(b)became a pensioner member of the 1995 Section or a corresponding 1995 scheme on, or after, that date (except if paragraph (1)(b)(i) or (ii) of regulation 153A applies to that person); or

(c)is a deferred member of the 1995 Section or a corresponding 1995 scheme, but is not a deferred member—

(i)to whom regulation 153(5)(e), (f), (g) or (h) applies, and

(ii)in respect of whom permission of the Department to rejoin the 1995 Section has not been granted pursuant to regulation 7(3) of that Section..