The Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) (Additional Voluntary Contributions, Injury Benefits and Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Amendments to the Health and Personal Social Services (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1983

4.  In the Health and Personal Social Services (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1983(1) in regulation 4 (Payment of compensation), for paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) The compensation payable in accordance with this paragraph shall consist of an annual allowance at a rate equal to the rate by which that pension would be increased in accordance with the 1995 Regulations, if—

(a)a period equal to the period with which he is credited under regulation 5 were added to the superannuable service in respect of which that pension is payable; and

(b)for the purposes of regulation 3 of the 1995 Regulations, the whole period is treated as if it was added to the entitled officer’s superannuable service in respect of superannuable employment before 1st April 2008.”.