SCHEDULE 2Amendments of the Police Pension (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2009 relating to reckoning of service

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1

Schedule 2 (application of regulations to officers to whom regulation 4(2) and (3) applies) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph 9 for “there were inserted in paragraph (1)” to the end substitute—

e

there were inserted in paragraph (1) after the words “35 years” the words—

  • “less the total pensionable service he was entitled to reckon under the 1988 Regulations, calculated in accordance with paragraphs (3) and (4), at the applicable time;”;

    1. a

      there were inserted after paragraph (1) the following paragraph—

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      a

      For the purposes of this regulation, the “applicable time” shall be determined in accordance with this paragraph.

      b

      In a case falling within paragraph 9(a) to (c) of Schedule 2—

      i

      subject to sub-paragraph (ii), the applicable time is the time of his retirement with an entitlement to—

      aa

      an ordinary pension under regulation B1; or, as the case may be,

      bb

      a short service award under regulation B2;

      cc

      an ill-health pension under regulation B3;

      dd

      a deferred pension under regulation B5;

      ee

      an award by way of repayment of aggregate pension contributions under regulation B6

      of the 1988 Regulations,

      ii

      where he has retired with an entitlement mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) and before retiring he had made an election under regulation G4(1) of the 1988 Regulations (election not to pay pension contributions) which had not been cancelled before retiring, the applicable time is the time when he made that election.

      c

      In a case falling within paragraph 9(d) of Schedule 2, the applicable time is the time when he made his election under regulation G4(1) of the 1988 Regulations.

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Re-number sub-paragraph (e) as “(g)” and—

a

for “the time mentioned in paragraph (1)(a)(i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) or (b), as the case may be,” substitute “the applicable time”;

b

for “as at the time of his retirement mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d), as the case may be,” substitute “at the applicable time”;

c

for “date of retirement mentioned in paragraph (1)” substitute “the applicable time”.