The Teachers’ Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

CHAPTER 2 Membership

Eligibility for active membership

19.—(1) A person (P) is eligible to be an active member of this scheme if—

(a) P is in an eligible employment; and

(b) P has reached 16 and has not reached 75.

(2) P is not eligible to be an active member of this scheme if P is employed in an accepted school in which P has a financial interest.

(3) In this regulation “a financial interest” does not include the right to receive a salary.

More than one employment

20.  A person may be an active member of this scheme in relation to more than one employment.

Dual capacity membership

21.—(1) A person is a dual capacity member of this scheme if the person is a member in 2 or more of the following capacities—

(a) an active member;

(b) a deferred member;

(c) a pensioner member.

(2) In determining whether a person who is an active member is also a pensioner member, the fact that the person is an active member and the person’s rights in either of those capacities are to be disregarded.

(3) In determining whether a person who is an active member or a pensioner member is also a deferred member, the fact that the person is an active member or a pensioner member and the person’s rights in that capacity are to be disregarded.

Payment of retirement benefits to dual capacity members

22.  Retirement benefits under this scheme are payable to a dual capacity member as if the member were 2 or more members and the amounts payable are determined accordingly(1).

(1)

The result is that 2 or more pensions lump sums may be payable in respect of the one member.