A1. These Regulations may be cited as the Teachers' Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 2nd November 1998.
A2.—(1) In these Regulations, any expression in the first column of Schedule 1 has the meaning specified opposite thereto in the second column of that Schedule.
(2) In these Regulations—
(a)any reference to, or to things done or falling to be done under or for the purposes of, any provision of these Regulations shall, if and so far as the nature of the reference permits, be construed as including, in relation to circumstances or purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision in any Regulations revoked by these Regulations, or in previous provisions, has or had effect, a reference to, or as the case may be to things done or falling to be done under or for the purposes of, that corresponding provision;
(b)any reference to the purchase of added years shall, in relation to previous provisions, be construed as including a reference to the payment of contributions by a person in respect of a period during which he was not in pensionable employment;
(c)any reference to contributions and benefits payable in respect of a person shall be construed as including a reference to contributions paid by him and benefits paid to him; and
(d)any reference to a transfer value paid or received shall be construed as including a reference to a transfer value which would have been paid or received but for arrangements made for the avoidance of payments between Departments.
(3) For the purposes of these Regulations—
(a)a person is qualified, or qualified by service, for a benefit if, on the day following his ceasing to be employed in reckonable service, he is entitled to payment thereof or would be so entitled but for his age;
(b)a person shall be taken to have ceased to be employed in reckonable service on the last day he is so employed or, as the case may be, the last day on which the employment was pensionable.