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The Public Service Pensions Revaluation Order (Northern Ireland) 2022

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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2022 No. 82

Public Service Pensions

The Public Service Pensions Revaluation Order (Northern Ireland) 2022

Made

4th March 2022

Coming into operation

1st April 2022

The Department of Finance makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9(2) and (3) of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014(1):

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Public Service Pensions Revaluation Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 and comes into operation on 1st April 2022.

Revaluation by reference to change in prices or earnings

2.  For the purposes of section 9(2) of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (revaluation), in relation to the period beginning on 1st April 2021 and ending on 31st March 2022—

(a)the change in prices is an increase of 3.1 per cent; and

(b)the change in earnings is an increase of 4.1 per cent.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 4th March 2022.

(L.S.)

Barry Armstrong

A senior officer of the

Department of Finance

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 9 of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 applies to public service pension schemes established under that Act which require a revaluation of pensionable earnings, or a portion of such earnings accrued as a pension, by reference to a change in prices or earnings (or both) in a given period.

In relation to the period 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022 inclusive, Article 2 of this Order specifies an increase in prices of 3.1 per cent, based on the year on year change in the Consumer Prices Index to September 2021; and an increase in earnings of 4.1 per cent, based on a measure of the year on year change in average weekly earnings to September 2021.

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