The Health and Social Care (Pension Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Exceptions to requirement that HSC employment must have ceased

57.—(1) A member is not prevented from becoming entitled to a pension under regulation 45 in respect of relevant service because of continuing in HSC employment if paragraph (2) applies.

(2) This paragraph applies if—

(a) the member is an active member in the HSC employment and that employment is employment into which the member has been transferred as a result of a transfer of an undertaking to the employing authority, and

(b) the member is a deferred member in respect of pensionable service that ceased before the member commenced the employment referred to in sub-paragraph (a).

(3) In paragraph (1), “relevant service” means the pensionable service referred to in paragraph (2)(b) in respect of which the member is a deferred member.

(4) A member is not prevented from becoming entitled to a pension under regulation 55 in respect of pensionable service in an employment (“the old employment”) because of continuing in HSC employment if paragraph (5) applies.

(5) This paragraph applies if—

(a) before the termination of the old employment the member held two or more HSC employments concurrently, and

(b) the member elected to take benefits under regulation 55 only in respect of the old employment and to continue to accrue rights to benefits in respect of any continuing employments in which the member is an active member.

(6) For the effect of a pension becoming payable as a result of paragraph (2) applying, see—

(a) Chapter 7 (re-employment and rejoining the Scheme),

(b) Chapter 8 (abatement).