The Teachers' Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

PART 3 N.I. Service pensionable on election

8.  A teacher of a kind other than specified in Part 2 who— N.I.

(a) is employed by an education and library board and with the agreement of the Department and his employer, elects within 6 months of the commencement of his service; or

(b) is employed by a person or body in respect of whose expenditure for the purpose for which he is employed grants are made either by the Department or by an education and library board and, with the agreement of the Department and his employer, elects within 6 months of the commencement of his service, or

(c) a person mentioned in paragraph 7(c) of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the Teachers' Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 as in operation immediately before 1 April 2015.

9.  An organiser who is employed as a youth and community worker, either by an education and library board for the purpose of its functions under Article 37 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 or by a body in respect of whose expenditure grants are made by an education and library board acting in the exercise of those functions, who is accepted by the Department for the purpose of this Schedule and who, with the consent of his employer, elects within 6 months of the commencement of his service. N.I.

10.  An organiser, not falling within paragraph 9, in the employment of— N.I.

(a) an education and library board; or

(b) a person or body other than an education and library board in respect of whose expenditure grants are paid by the Department; who is accepted by the Department for the purposes of this Schedule and who elects within 3 months of the commencement of his service; or

(c) an accepted school.

11.  In this Schedule— N.I.

“elects” means elects by notice in writing to the Department that the service mentioned shall be pensionable service; and

“organiser” means a person or employment which involves the performance of duties in connection with the provision of education or services ancillary to education.