These Regulations amend the Teachers' Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (“the 1998 Regulations”).

Under Part G of those Regulations, the Department of Education is required to prepare a Teachers' Superannuation Account. Regulation G3 specifies certain sums which must be debited to that Account. Among the sums so specified are increases paid under the Pensions (Increase) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971. These sums are in fact payable directly out of the Exchequer and so were included under regulation G3 in error. These Regulations correct that error.