The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 No. 113

Schedule 4 N.I. Transitional provisions

PART 2 N.I. Exceptions for full protection members of the 1988 scheme

Meaning of “full protection member” (the 1988 scheme) N.I.

9.—(1) A person (P) to whom any of paragraph 11 applies is a full protection member of the 1988 scheme.

[F1 (2) P ceases to be a full protection member of the 1988 scheme on whichever of the following days occurs first—

(a) the day on which P ceases to be in pensionable service under that scheme; or

(b) 31st March 2022.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 4 para. 9(2) substituted (30.3.2022) by The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/148), regs. 1(2), 6(3)

Exception for full protection member during protection period N.I.

10.—(1) The protection period for a full protection member of the 1988 scheme—

(a) begins on the day after the scheme closing date; and

(b) ends when P ceases to be a full protection member of the 1988 scheme.

(2) In respect of the protection period—

(a) P is in pensionable service under the 1988 scheme;

(b) section 18(1) of the Act does not apply in respect of that pensionable service; and

(c) benefits are to be provided under the 1988 scheme to or in respect of P in relation to that pensionable service.

Active member of the 1988 scheme on scheme closing date N.I.

11.—(1) This paragraph applies if any of the following sub-paragraphs applies.

(2) This sub-paragraph applies if—

(a) P was an active member of the 1988 scheme on the scheme closing date and on 31st March 2012; and

(b) on 1st April 2012, P had reached 45.

(3) This sub-paragraph applies if—

(a) P was an active member of the 1988 scheme on the scheme closing date and on 31st March 2012;

(b) on 1st April 2012—

(i) P had reached 38; and

(ii) P had at least 20 years pensionable service under the 1988 scheme.

(4) This sub-paragraph applies if—

(a) on 31st March 2012, P was an active member of the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme;

(b) P began pensionable service under the 1988 scheme immediately after ceasing to be in pensionable service under the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme.;

(c) on the scheme closing date, P was an active member of the 1988 scheme; and

(d) P would have been a full protection member of the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme had P remained in pensionable service under that scheme.